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Terrorist Candidates Are Eroding Pakistan’s Democracy

by Shania Darla Soriano | Jun 20, 2021 | University of the Philippines, Diliman

Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 states that individuals who claim to belong to terrorist groups and create terror in the state must be arrested, detained, and subjected to the death penalty.  Despite this law, terrorists remain able and free to form...

Myanmar’s Coup Cycle: Civil Society’s Fruitless Resistance

by Nancy Lam | Apr 29, 2021 | Arizona State University

Civil society has met the military’s coup in February and detainment of democratic heroine Aung San Suu Kyi with both nonviolent and violent forms of protest. Will we see a revival in Myanmar’s democratic experiment and restoration of civilian rule? Or will the...

Facebook’s Gradual Assault on Democracy

by Iman Mohamed | Mar 24, 2021 | Georgia State University

Communication and social interactions are critical tools that can either solidify polarization or depolarize democracies at risk. Social relations inherently trickle down into the political discourse of every nation. This means that the status of these social...

How the Trump Base Represents the Danger that Populism Continues To Pose to American Democracy

by Timmy Lee | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago

On November 7th, 4 days after Election Day, Joe Biden was projected to have defeated President Donald Trump and declared to be the 46th President of the United States by all major news sources, including Fox News. The reaction to Biden’s win from Trump, his cabinet...

Facebook and Content Moderation: An Inconspicuous Driver of Democratic Erosion

by Bernal Cortés | Oct 25, 2020 | Williams College

In 2004, in a small dorm room at Harvard University, Facebook was born. A platform initially designed for American college students to network and meet each other has grown to host nearly 3 billion global monthly users in little over 16 years. With such exponential...
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