Authoritarian Influence in International Organizations: The Case of Interpol

By Edward Lemon In late 2018, Interpol, the world’s 194-member police cooperation organization, made international headlines when its president, Meng Hongwei, former vice-minister of public security in China, fell victim to the very anti-corruption campaign his organization had enabled. After myster ...

A Ray of Hope in the Haze: Disinformation and the Slovak Presidential Election

By Katarína Klingová Many see the election of Zuzana Čaputová to the Slovak presidency as a hopeful sign for Central European politics. A lawyer and activist for anti-corruption and environmental causes, Čaputová received more than 40 percent of the vote in the first round of the election; second-pl ...

The Power of Ideas: Cuba's Efforts to Shape Debate in Latin America

By Armando Chaguaceda and Maria Werlau Joseph Nye, who coined the post-Cold War concept of “soft power,” explained: “A country’s soft power can come from three resources: its culture… its political values… and its foreign policies… Like any form of power, it can be wielded for good ...

An Intelligent Human Rights Agenda for Artificial Intelligence

By Eileen Donahoe and Megan MacDuffee Metzger Around the world, concern about the consequences of our growing reliance upon artificial intelligence (AI) is rising. Perhaps the darkest concerns relate to development of AI by authoritarian regimes, some of which are devoting massive resources toward a ...