Authoritarianism's New Wave

Today's undemocratic governments are smarter and more sophisticated than ever before.

BY JENNIFER WINDSOR, JEFFREY GEDMIN, AND LIBBY LIU | JUNE 3, 2009

Call it Authoritarianism 2.0. Today's authoritarian regimes are undermining democracy in updated, sophisticated, and lavishly funded ways. This new class of autocrats poses the most serious challenge to the emergence of an international system based on the rule of law, human rights, and open expression.With the benefit of hindsight, it's clear that the 1990s were heady days. The Soviet Union had collapsed and democracy appeared to be...

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