Subverting the International System
December 17, 2015
In Kazakhstan, the New Year May Ring in New Online Restrictions
On November 30, 2015, the authorities in Kazakhstan fired off the latest salvo in authoritarian regimes’ battle against Internet freedom. Kazakhtelecom, the Central Asian country’s largest telecommunications company, released a...
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November 12, 2015
The Cost of Doing Business: Sacrificing Freedom of Expression in China
A few weeks ago, Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei received a letter from the Denmark-based Lego Group rejecting his bulk order for the company’s plastic building-block toys, which the...
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October 22, 2015
China’s “Deep Engagement” with North Korea
Guest post by Stephan Haggard. China and the broader international community share at least one strategic interest concerning North Korea: Beijing has repeatedly emphasized its desire for a denuclearized peninsula. Yet...
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September 15, 2015
Under Pressure: Space for Civil Society
September 15 is the United Nations International Day of Democracy. This year’s theme highlighting “Space for Civil Society” raises the profile of human rights defenders and democracy activists at a...
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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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July 21, 2015
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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