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• Title: Freedom House Presents ... Civil Society Under Threat Bureaucratic Strategies of the New Authoritarians (Spotlight)
• Author : Harvard International Review
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 1132 KB

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After several decades of consistent progress, the state of global freedom has entered a period of stagnation and possibly even decline. The reasons for recent setbacks to liberty are numerous and complex. However, to a significant degree, the reversal in freedom of association can be attributed to the emergence of a few large and assertive authoritarian states--countries that are geostrategically important, major participants in the world economy, militarily robust, and, in a number of cases, rich in energy and other natural resources. Increasingly active on the global stage, these countries--Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela rank at the top of the list--also function as models for less powerful regimes with anti-democratic tendencies. At times, smaller countries have even emulated the techniques employed by these larger states to smother democratic currents; in a few cases, governments have even shared "lessons learned" in the methods of repression with likeminded regimes. Among the principal targets of the new authoritarianism is civil society. Democratic political parties, human rights organizations, women's advocates, independent trade unions, groups that investigate corruption or monitor security service abuse, organizations that seek legal reform, groups that champion minority rights or religious freedom are all organizations that seek to provide ordinary people with a voice or influence on public policy, and all have come under growing pressure from regimes that are determined to marginalize or eliminate all perceived sources of opposition power and dissent.

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