#Democracies

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

threadTHE ART OF DEBATE1. We spent too many years in a cosy & harmful, unholy political alliance. Those years when New Labour, the Conservatives & the Liberal Democrats all sang

Jessica Rose

jesslynnrose

The function of a system is its output.If you have dog grooming machine that sometimes smashes puppies and you keep running it, you're in the dog smashing business.If you work

Chris - UBI for the People - Alemany 🌹 🇨🇦

chrisalecanada

What is extremist if not to hurt people?A thread https://www.chrisalemany.ca/2020/11/09/what-is-extremist-if-not-to-hurt-people/ The word extremist has been used to describe violent people for a long time. It is usually attached to a relig

Hervé Lemahieu

HerveLemahieu

Thread. Purpose of our study is to draw out some sensible (if still early) trends from publicly-available and comparable data. And to challenge the ‘infodemic’ of narratives and counter-narratives about

cadéyrn

Cadeyrnn

Some brief thoughts about rising inequality in both China and America and how it ties into the Sino-American Cold War: (1/?) China and America may be rivals right now, but

🙂Sanjeev Sabhlok, Pope @Church of Reason& Liberty

sabhlok

1/ REQUEST TO WORLD GOVERNMENTS TO INVESIGATE XI JINPING'S WAR AGAINST THE WEST 1. It was Xi alone who invented lockdowns2. Tedros and Aylward (@WHO) have been criminally negligent in

Abraham Newman

ANewman_forward

Thread: Syllabus alert -- New paper w/@henryfarrell in @IntOrgJournal on how the liberal international information order is becoming self-undermining. Helps makes sense of stories like this.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/

Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士

AlexGabuev

THREAD Failure to address Moscow's growing dependency on @Huawei will help Beijing embed Russia in a China-centred technological order, a digital #PaxSinica with worrying, global ramifications, I argue in my

Kronos

TitanTOC

What are Secret police? What makes a security for secret, and separate from normal police, is chiefly the lack of identity. These actors wear masks, carry no identification, will not

Robert Clark

RobertClark87

Inadvertently Arming China? @RadoTylecote and I for @Civitas_UK investigated the links between UK universities, research institutions, & industry partners, & Chinese military universities & arms manufacturers.A thread.https://ci

Maximilian Mayer

mayer_iras

German-US relations are likely getting into a very critical phase with respect to China. Growing divergence of interests and perspectives will make the transatlantic revival many still hope for difficult

Michael McFaul

McFaul

Autocrats fall and democracies emerge in many different ways. No one model. Splits in ancien regime usually critical. So too are peaceful mass protests. External actors can play negative and

Only corrupt politicians support election theft

NoDemocracyInUK

In last 10 months Gvt restrictions onwhere we can go when we can go there how long we can stay there how many friends we can meet If & when

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

delibdemjournal

WE'RE ABOUT TO START! Welcome to our first event of 2021. This event is based on our Special Issue on Democracy without Shortcuts. You can read the SI here: https://delibdemjournal.org/32/volume/16/issue/2/

Alex Dukalskis

AlexDukalskis

Please see my new article with @sbrazys_ucd in @JoDemocracy It analyzes the global messaging of Xinhua - China's main state news agency - in several languages. [Thread]https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/chinas-message-machine/

Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions

mynamesnotgordy

What I learnt on the Twitter this week:1. Well I know I learnt a lot more on Twitter this week than Trump did.2. After Covid numbers skyrocket in Ontario for

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.