Foreign interference in democracies: Understanding the threat, and evolving responses
Across the world, democratic societies, institutions, processes and values are under increasing external and internal attack. The coronavirus crisis has, meanwhile, exacerbated the systemic struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, prompting authoritarian state and non-state actors to deploy a broad range of overt and covert instruments in their bid to destabilise their democratic counterparts. Against this backdrop, and following a string of examples of hostile meddling by authoritarian actors to undermine democratic governing processes in countries such as Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States (US), Canada and Australia, the focus on foreign interference continues to sharpen. Among the EU's institutions, the European Parliament − arguably the flagship of European democracy − is pushing the policy response to foreign interference to the top of the political agenda. Among other initiatives and actions, in October 2019 it passed a resolution on countering foreign interference and has set up a special committee on foreign interference, whose constituent meeting is scheduled to take place in September 2020.
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- Австралия
- авторитарен режим
- Азия и Океания
- Америка
- ГЕОГРАФИЯ
- дезинформация
- демокрация
- Европа
- ЕВРОПЕЙСКИ СЪЮЗ
- защита на информация
- избирателна процедура и гласуване
- изборна пропаганда
- изграждане на Европа
- икономическа география
- информационна сигурност
- информационна технология и обработка на данните
- информация и обработка на информацията
- Канада
- Китай
- комуникации
- ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ И КОМУНИКАЦИИ
- ПОЛИТИКА
- политическа география
- политическа система
- рестриктивна мярка, наложена от ЕС
- Русия
- Съединени щати