Diamond on ICTs as “liberation technology”
Recent fervor over new media as tools of democracy assistance has met resistance in the recognition that autocrats can block or use these technologies themselves. Larry Diamond in the JoD nonetheless sees these technologies as fundamentally democratizing forces. Donor countries should focus on helping users circumvent their censors.
Dodging reformers, dodging dictators
Focusing partly on new media, the journal of Georgetown’s DG think tank looks at strategies autocrats use to evade democratizing interventions and the strategies reformers pursue to evade those autocrats.
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