Results for “National League for Democracy”

…n, British bookmakers listed them as a 5,000- to-1 shot to emerge as the champion), the Cleveland Cavaliers’ first ever National Basketball Association championship and, of course, the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series for the first time since 1908! All unlikely. But they hap...

…Major stipulations The Mandate Document included several paragraphs, which were considered by many historians and international lawyers as flagrant breaches of the word and spirit of the Mandate system. The system was intended to protect the territories occupied by the British a...

; Origins February 24 — 26, 2017 PROJECT An Origins Project Scientific Workshop ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Challenges of Artificial Intelligence: Envisioning and Addressing Adverse Outcomes 2) DEMOCRACY, INFORMATION, AND IDENTITY Al, Information, and Democracy (Incorporating co...

But comparison to the short-lived flowering of protests 40 years ago in Czechoslovakia is turning out to be apt in another way. For all the attention the Mideast protests have received, their most notable impact on the region thus far hasn't been an upswell of democracy. It has b...

CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction: Modern Authoritarians: Origins, Anatomy, Outlook 5 Chapters 1. Validating Autocracy through the Ballot 10 2. Propaganda at Home and Abroad 15 3. The Enemy Within: Civil Society at Bay 22 4. The Ministry of Truth in Peace and War 29 5....

…er growth after years of misallocated invest- ment and other structural problems. But these regimes also face less international pressure to observe democratic norms, raising their chanc- es of either surviving the current crises or—if they break down—giving way to something even...

…ianism: Origins, Anatomy, Outlook As the world’s democracies confront a dangerous internal challenge from populist and nationalist political forces, it is imperative that they recognize the simultaneous external threat presented by modern authoritarian regimes. These 21° century...

; Origins February 24 — 26, 2017 PROJECT An Origins Project Scientific Workshop ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Challenges of Artificial Intelligence: Envisioning and Addressing Adverse Outcomes 2) DEMOCRACY, INFORMATION, AND IDENTITY Al, Information, and Democracy (Incorporating co...

…n-owned corporations, tax concessions for corporations controlled by Fidesz loyalists, and the granting of control over nationalized sectors of the economy to Fidesz supporters. In its relentless drive to hand economic power to its allies, Fidesz resembles the old-style politic...

…. 1. Brian Whitmore, “Vladimir Putin, Conservative Icon,” Atlantic, December 20, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/ar- chive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/?single_page=true. 2. Ivo Oliveira, “National Front Seeks Russian Cash for Election Fight,”...

the victory of democracy in Syria is in America’s best national interests.

30 anywhere pound for pound. Along the way, a strong national consciousness was forged in the vein of a twenty-first-century trading state. Lee’s method of government was not altogether democratic, and his intrusion into people’s lives bordered on the petty and anal- retentive:...

…new center to counter the “falsification” of history. The council placed the pro- posal in the context of the country’s national security, pointing to “deliberate destructive activity by foreign state structures and international organizations to realize geopolitical interests by...

…n Forget - > wrote: Donald Trump's newly named chief strategist and senior counselor, Steve Bannon, laid out his global nationalist vision in unusually in-depth remarks delivered by Skype to a conference held inside the Vatican in the summer of 2014. Well before victories for Bre...

… the breast of the conference attendee who took the `selfie' photo. This photo was not made available to the Australian National University, although it was requested in the course of the investigation." (And for the record I often put my hand up in front of a camera if there is...