propaganda
April 19, 2016
Hollywood with Chinese Characteristics
Guest post by Anne-Marie Brady, contributing author to the edited volume, Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy. On February 19, 2016, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party...
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December 3, 2015
Tailor-Made Propaganda, Direct from Russia
Guest post by Robert Orttung. In 2015, Forbes named Russian President Vladimir Putin the most powerful man in the world for the third year in a row. This selection was made...
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November 19, 2015
Controlling the Script: The Kremlin’s Disinformation Machine
By now, many have viewed with puzzled amusement the mega-macho images trotted out by Russian media outlets of President Vladimir Putin riding a Harley, winning hockey games, and playing with...
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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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July 16, 2015
Authoritarian Media and the Era of Disinformation
“Democracy Ideas” is an interview series conducted by Christopher Walker with leading thinkers on democracy who share their insights on topics such as the ways in which democracy can work...
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July 9, 2015
Beyond Propaganda: How Authoritarians Disrupt the Global Information Space
It has often been assumed that the era of globalization and the proliferation of communications technologies would foster a more pluralistic global information space in which liberal, democratic ideas would...
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