Sabanci University

A New World Order? Digital Authoritarianism

Kate Crawford in her book Atlas of AI argues that AI “grew on the battlefield where it was used to detect enemies, strange objects and maintain...

Recently, the global rise of democratic regimes starting during the 1970s with the Third Wave of Democratization has stopped. This wave was then...

It is described that the freedom of expression, one of the indispensable elements to remain the nation democratic, in Japan has gradually...

Serbia: A case of Competitive Authoritarianism After the fall of Milosevic in 2000, democratization process started in Serbia. Along with...

In Hong Kong, an unusual kind of protesting started in 2014. Marked by singing and yellow umbrellas, quickly the young students that represented...

The two military coups occurred in 2022 in Burkina Faso lead to some conclusions about the development of authoritarian systems On 29 November...

In this epoch, it is not seldom to come across an example of backsliding democracy. In a way, this phenomenon defines the gist of our times....

Democratic backsliding refers to the decline or reversal of democratic principles and practices within a political system. This can be caused by...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a practitioner of new authoritarian methods, initiated in the aftermath of the 2015 parliamentary elections a new concept...