From Democracy Digest:

The impact of the coronavirus in the Middle East has led to shifts in the nature of authoritarianism, according to Carnegie analysts Nathan J. Brown, Intissar Fakir and Yasmine Farouk…

On the theory of never letting a good crisis go to waste, the world’s strongman leaders can be expected to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to achieve an even tighter grip on the media, note Arch Puddington, a Senior Scholar at Freedom House, and David J. Kramer, a Senior Fellow at Florida International University’s Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. Here are several possible developments to watch for, they write for The American Interest:…

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