Shanghai Cooperation Organization
August 19, 2015
Reshaping the Rules: The Emergence of Global Authoritarian Counternorms
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The BRICS Bank. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization. What do these organizations have in common? For starters, China is a major player in each of them. And...
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The Authoritarian Challenge to Democratic Norms
Following the euphoria of the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, many policy makers and academics believed that democracy and respect for the rule-based international system progressively would establish...
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The Authoritarian Surge into Cyberspace
In the early days of the Internet, it was difficult to imagine how authoritarian regimes could cope with such a powerful source of open information. Today, it is clear that...
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