#autocracies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #autocracies, aggregated by home.social.
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#Autocracies get more repressive when opening up their economies – a political scientists explores why https://theconversation.com/autocracies-get-more-repressive-when-opening-up-their-economies-a-political-scientists-explores-why-281104
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#Autocracies get more repressive when opening up their economies – a political scientists explores why https://theconversation.com/autocracies-get-more-repressive-when-opening-up-their-economies-a-political-scientists-explores-why-281104
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Hi everyone,
I’ve spent a lot of time reading discussions around here and finally decided it was time to stop lurking and actually join the conversation.
My interests mostly revolve around #InternationalLaw, #InternationalRelations, #Geopolitics and broader #Security issues. I tend to follow topics related to authoritarian systems, strategic competition and the way global events reshape our world.
I also spend a lot of time trying to understand Russia’s role as a security challenge and the broader issue of how modern #Autocracies operate. I strongly support #Ukraine and believe that defending freedom and democratic values is not only a regional issue, but something that affects all of us. #StandWithUkraine
That said, I’m here more to exchange ideas than to deliver speeches. #Microblogging seems like an interesting place to think out loud, learn from different perspectives and occasionally challenge my own assumptions.
Looking forward to interesting discussions.
Still learning, still curious. -
Hi everyone,
I’ve spent a lot of time reading discussions around here and finally decided it was time to stop lurking and actually join the conversation.
My interests mostly revolve around #InternationalLaw, #InternationalRelations, #Geopolitics and broader #Security issues. I tend to follow topics related to authoritarian systems, strategic competition and the way global events reshape our world.
I also spend a lot of time trying to understand Russia’s role as a security challenge and the broader issue of how modern #Autocracies operate. I strongly support #Ukraine and believe that defending freedom and democratic values is not only a regional issue, but something that affects all of us. #StandWithUkraine
That said, I’m here more to exchange ideas than to deliver speeches. #Microblogging seems like an interesting place to think out loud, learn from different perspectives and occasionally challenge my own assumptions.
Looking forward to interesting discussions.
Still learning, still curious. -
Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2026.1779810/full
#HackerNews #Corruption #SocialTrust #Democracies #Autocracies #PoliticalScience
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Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2026.1779810/full
#HackerNews #Corruption #SocialTrust #Democracies #Autocracies #PoliticalScience
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Don’t fall for authoritarian hype. It can be stopped
#Populist #nationalist surge exposes new, unavoidable truth we ignore at our peril: #authoritarian #ethnic nationalism
It's replaced neoliberalism as dominant ideology, giving a world of firsts:
- America 1st
- India 1st
- China first
- Russia 1st
- My tribe 1stNationalism explains why world now has 91 #autocracies & only 88 #democracies
It's force behind almost every 1 of world’s 59 border conflicts & civil wars
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Don’t fall for authoritarian hype. It can be stopped
#Populist #nationalist surge exposes new, unavoidable truth we ignore at our peril: #authoritarian #ethnic nationalism
It's replaced neoliberalism as dominant ideology, giving a world of firsts:
- America 1st
- India 1st
- China first
- Russia 1st
- My tribe 1stNationalism explains why world now has 91 #autocracies & only 88 #democracies
It's force behind almost every 1 of world’s 59 border conflicts & civil wars
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Trump doesn’t have a desire to take over #Greenland, Silicon Valley has.
This is part 1 of the Silicon Valley billionaires’ plan to take over the whole world.
This is about the #NetworkState. The plan to build pure corporate #autocracies, as the next superpower of the world.
They see the end of nation states and #democracy, and yearn for a world where #corporations rule supreme.
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Trump doesn’t have a desire to take over #Greenland, Silicon Valley has.
This is part 1 of the Silicon Valley billionaires’ plan to take over the whole world.
This is about the #NetworkState. The plan to build pure corporate #autocracies, as the next superpower of the world.
They see the end of nation states and #democracy, and yearn for a world where #corporations rule supreme.
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#RepublicOfGeorgia: First year of #Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how #autocracies are replicating #Russian model − and speeding up the time frame
Published: March 28, 2025 6:25am EDT
"#Autocracy is on the move worldwide and becoming more resilient.
"One of the driving forces behind this phenomenon is something scholars call '#AuthoritarianLearning,' a process by which autocratic leaders study each other and adapt tactics based on what appears to work, and how to proceed when they encounter #resistance.
"Take Georgia. The ruling Georgian Dream party has steered the Caucasus nation from a path toward democracy back to autocracy – and it has done so by learning from Russia. In particular, it adopted a '#ForeignAgent' law in May 2024 – legislation that came straight from #VladimirPutin’s playbook.
"Sold to the public as increasing #transparency, the legislation has been utilized to persecute Georgia’s #opposition and arrest #dissidents with impunity.
"As researchers examining the structure and effects of autocratic regimes, we view Georgia’s first year of its foreign agent law as an example of how politicians are not only learning the tactics of Russian authoritarianism but improving on them in a shorter time frame."
#RightToProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GeorgianLaws #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #HumanRights #RepublicOfGeorgia #GeorgianDream #ProtestSponsors #ExpandedPolicePowers #PoliceState #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Autocracy -
#RepublicOfGeorgia: First year of #Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how #autocracies are replicating #Russian model − and speeding up the time frame
Published: March 28, 2025 6:25am EDT
"#Autocracy is on the move worldwide and becoming more resilient.
"One of the driving forces behind this phenomenon is something scholars call '#AuthoritarianLearning,' a process by which autocratic leaders study each other and adapt tactics based on what appears to work, and how to proceed when they encounter #resistance.
"Take Georgia. The ruling Georgian Dream party has steered the Caucasus nation from a path toward democracy back to autocracy – and it has done so by learning from Russia. In particular, it adopted a '#ForeignAgent' law in May 2024 – legislation that came straight from #VladimirPutin’s playbook.
"Sold to the public as increasing #transparency, the legislation has been utilized to persecute Georgia’s #opposition and arrest #dissidents with impunity.
"As researchers examining the structure and effects of autocratic regimes, we view Georgia’s first year of its foreign agent law as an example of how politicians are not only learning the tactics of Russian authoritarianism but improving on them in a shorter time frame."
#RightToProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GeorgianLaws #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #HumanRights #RepublicOfGeorgia #GeorgianDream #ProtestSponsors #ExpandedPolicePowers #PoliceState #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Autocracy -
Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for #Authoritarianism
A leading global #democracy research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after 10 years, recovery is “close to impossible.”
For the first time in more than 20 years, by #2025 #DemocracyReport’s estimate, the world now has more #autocracies (91) than #democracies (88), with liberal democracies (29) now least common regime type.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-freedom-authoritarianism
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Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for #Authoritarianism
A leading global #democracy research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after 10 years, recovery is “close to impossible.”
For the first time in more than 20 years, by #2025 #DemocracyReport’s estimate, the world now has more #autocracies (91) than #democracies (88), with liberal democracies (29) now least common regime type.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-freedom-authoritarianism
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Trump is testing waters on Ukraine to see how far he can go elsewhere
A ‘win’ in #Ukraine may lead Trump to act in #Gaza, #Canada or #Greenland
Globally #Trump’s focus is cooperating with world’s leading #autocracies & #oligarchies to get #US get richer at the expense of just about everyone else.
In part, this is because the Trump administration is testing the waters to see just how far and how rapidly it can go.
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Trump is testing waters on Ukraine to see how far he can go elsewhere
A ‘win’ in #Ukraine may lead Trump to act in #Gaza, #Canada or #Greenland
Globally #Trump’s focus is cooperating with world’s leading #autocracies & #oligarchies to get #US get richer at the expense of just about everyone else.
In part, this is because the Trump administration is testing the waters to see just how far and how rapidly it can go.
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→ Zuckerberg's free speech pivot will abet Southeast Asia's authoritarians
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Zuckerberg-s-free-speech-pivot-will-abet-Southeast-Asia-s-authoritarians“Autocracies worldwide are not just learning from one another but actively collaborating to tighten their grip on the #digital sphere. #Meta's double standard -- resisting regulation in #democracies while bowing to #authoritarian demands to protect its #market dominance -- risks becoming the blueprint for a darker, more repressive digital #future.”
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→ Zuckerberg's free speech pivot will abet Southeast Asia's authoritarians
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Zuckerberg-s-free-speech-pivot-will-abet-Southeast-Asia-s-authoritarians“Autocracies worldwide are not just learning from one another but actively collaborating to tighten their grip on the #digital sphere. #Meta's double standard -- resisting regulation in #democracies while bowing to #authoritarian demands to protect its #market dominance -- risks becoming the blueprint for a darker, more repressive digital #future.”
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Playbook of #autocracies explained in new #book
#Autocratic regimes like #Russia are increasingly bold in efforts to undermine norms defining democratic #WorldOrder after WWII
A month after #RussiaInvadedUkraine, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said “this is not about Ukraine at all, but world order”
“The current war is fateful, epoch-making moment in modern history,” he continued. “It reflects battle over what world order will be.”
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imho:
this could -- and if not addressed, will -- make the #cambridgeanaytica / #facebook debacle of 2016, and its enabling of #autocracies look like childsplay.
a permanent bye-bye for #democracy
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imho:
this could -- and if not addressed, will -- make the #cambridgeanaytica / #facebook debacle of 2016, and its enabling of #autocracies look like childsplay.
a permanent bye-bye for #democracy
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Autocracy, Inc - The #Dictators Who Want to Run the World
The New York Times' #AnneApplebaum argued that #autocracies are working together to weaken #democracy and offered her thoughts on how to defeat them. Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hosted this event.
#cspan #video
https://www.c-span.org/video/?536956-1/autocracy-dictators-run-world -
ZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva will be presenting at #ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference “The
Informational #Influence of #Autocracies Abroad” in Ljublyana, Slovenia, on September 23rd 2024.Further information:
https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/dr-daria-dergacheva-at-ecreas-2024-pre-conference-in-september/ -
Applebaum: The relationship between modern #autocracies – they are not an alliance...What they are more like is a huge international #conglomerate within which there are separate companies that cooperate when it suits them, but otherwise do their own thing…
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Applebaum: The relationship between modern #autocracies – they are not an alliance...What they are more like is a huge international #conglomerate within which there are separate companies that cooperate when it suits them, but otherwise do their own thing…
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Her book examines some of the ways that #Silicon #Valley #billionaires have become effectively complicit in enabling #autocracies to thrive,
agreeing to censorship on their platforms,
following the money.She has been prominent among those writers shining a light on the ways that 🔸coordinated propaganda strategies in autocracies are fuelling division in the west.🔸
♦️Getting an American president who doesn’t like Nato in office is a lot cheaper than fighting wars♦️
“Of course, I don’t think either Trumpism or the Brexit campaign were foreign ideas,” she says.
“I mean, because I worked at the Spectator in the 1990s I knew many people who were anti-EU then
and who had grassroots deep in the English countryside.But as we know, what the Russians do, and now others, 🔷they don’t invent political movements – they amplify existing groups.”🔷
In the case of #Trump, she suggests,
“he is clearly somebody who they cultivated for a long time.Not as a spy or anything.
But they were offering him opportunities,
you know, he was trying to do [property] deals there [in Moscow].
And he’s been anti-Nato since the 80s.
He’s openly scorned American allies all of his life.
In one of his books, he talks about what a mistake it was for the US to be fighting the second world war.👉So of course, the Russians would want someone like that,
because their aim is to break up Nato. 👈❌And if they can help get an American president who doesn’t like Nato in office, that’s a huge achievement.
It’s a lot cheaper than fighting wars.” -
Her book examines some of the ways that #Silicon #Valley #billionaires have become effectively complicit in enabling #autocracies to thrive,
agreeing to censorship on their platforms,
following the money.She has been prominent among those writers shining a light on the ways that 🔸coordinated propaganda strategies in autocracies are fuelling division in the west.🔸
♦️Getting an American president who doesn’t like Nato in office is a lot cheaper than fighting wars♦️
“Of course, I don’t think either Trumpism or the Brexit campaign were foreign ideas,” she says.
“I mean, because I worked at the Spectator in the 1990s I knew many people who were anti-EU then
and who had grassroots deep in the English countryside.But as we know, what the Russians do, and now others, 🔷they don’t invent political movements – they amplify existing groups.”🔷
In the case of #Trump, she suggests,
“he is clearly somebody who they cultivated for a long time.Not as a spy or anything.
But they were offering him opportunities,
you know, he was trying to do [property] deals there [in Moscow].
And he’s been anti-Nato since the 80s.
He’s openly scorned American allies all of his life.
In one of his books, he talks about what a mistake it was for the US to be fighting the second world war.👉So of course, the Russians would want someone like that,
because their aim is to break up Nato. 👈❌And if they can help get an American president who doesn’t like Nato in office, that’s a huge achievement.
It’s a lot cheaper than fighting wars.” -
#Gaza Shows Us The Difference Between Evil #Autocracies And Free #Democracies
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#Gaza Shows Us The Difference Between Evil #Autocracies And Free #Democracies
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'Lord Tugendhat added: “What we are being asked to do really represents the sort of behaviour that the world associates with #despots and #autocracies, not with an established #democracy, not with the Mother of #Parliaments. It is a bill we should not even be asked to confront, let alone pass.”'
#UK #politics #Rwanda #immigration #Conservative #Conservatives #Tory #Tories
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'Lord Tugendhat added: “What we are being asked to do really represents the sort of behaviour that the world associates with #despots and #autocracies, not with an established #democracy, not with the Mother of #Parliaments. It is a bill we should not even be asked to confront, let alone pass.”'
#UK #politics #Rwanda #immigration #Conservative #Conservatives #Tory #Tories
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"Made In Ireland" makes reappearance on #RuZZia assembled versions of Mad Mullahs' Iranian drones. This whole 'wait for sanctions and embargoes to take effect' is working out really well after all these years with wannabe nuclear Iran, & approaching 2 years with RuZZia. #Ukraine is the battleground which tips the scales in favour of either #Democracies or #Autocracies, dependent on which system is seen to win. #ArmUkraine #Taiwan 🌻🇺🇦🇪🇺🇮🇪
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Can Autocracies Gain a Competitive Advantage with AI?
With the help of AI, I have written a short position/discussion paper on a possible impact of #AI and #AGI on the #economic competition between #autocracies and #democracies:
https://zenodo.org/records/10405738
Would be interesting to get your thoughts on this and ideas on how we can counter this thread.
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Can Autocracies Gain a Competitive Advantage with AI?
With the help of AI, I have written a short position/discussion paper on a possible impact of #AI and #AGI on the #economic competition between #autocracies and #democracies:
https://zenodo.org/records/10405738
Would be interesting to get your thoughts on this and ideas on how we can counter this thread.
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#Autocracies and #FakeNews laws in #Asia: At #GIGATalk, Cathleen Berger, Ruth Streicher, Sangeeta Mahapatra, Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Andreas Ufen, and Christian von Soest will discuss the erosion of #CivilRights.
➡ Register here for 6 December: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/giga-talks-berlin/weaponising-fake-news-laws-autocratic-disinformation-laws-civil-society-south-southeast-asia
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#Autocracies and #FakeNews laws in #Asia: At #GIGATalk, Cathleen Berger, Ruth Streicher, Sangeeta Mahapatra, Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Andreas Ufen, and Christian von Soest will discuss the erosion of #CivilRights.
➡ Register here for 6 December: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/giga-talks-berlin/weaponising-fake-news-laws-autocratic-disinformation-laws-civil-society-south-southeast-asia
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Our annual conference "How to Deal with #Autocracies in a Fragmented World" discusses the topic of regime competition with special focus on China, the #MENA region and #Russia. Join us via livestream on October 12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaSZrid7XtQ) and October 13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTNemWyG1NA).
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New in Advance Articles in Communist and Post-Communist Studies:
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society
by Fabian Burkhardt & Jan Matti Dollbaum
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Don’t Count the #Dictators Out
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/putin-xi-khamenei-dictators-way
The Underappreciated Resilience of Today’s #Autocracies -
Just published with David Stroup in Perspectives on Politics, and it's Open Access!
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592722004182
Our article combines insights from research in #Russia and #China over the years. We argue that conducting ethnographic research in #autocracies makes outsider roles more desirable for identifying the unspoken rules, assumptions, and taken-for-granted aspects of everyday politics in autocracies. Moreover, outsider roles provide ethical advantages in consent, value, and risk.
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Good talk and good to see the point of #democracies having common interests vs #autocracies now having become something *obvious*, well, at least for the #Taiwanese.
Any technology, funding/investment, knowhow, data from democracies exposing potential weaknesses... still flowing into dictatorships makes the despots more belligerent and all democracies less safe.
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Good talk and good to see the point of #democracies having common interests vs #autocracies now having become something *obvious*, well, at least for the #Taiwanese.
Any technology, funding/investment, knowhow, data from democracies exposing potential weaknesses... still flowing into dictatorships makes the despots more belligerent and all democracies less safe.
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#China will use that immense #tiktok database for an #AItraining #dataset. Why? Because that is their one real leverage, #autocracies inevitably seek to self-perpetuate and with individual privacy rights they're particularly unscrupulous (goes double for Americans, triple for Asian-Americans).