Authoritarianism Goes Global

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he previously directed the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Marc F. Plattner is the vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Diamond and Plattner are the founding coeditors of the Journal of Democracy, co-chairs of the Research Council of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, and coeditors of Democracy in Decline? Christopher Walker is the executive director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Authoritarian "Big Five"Chapter 1. China's ChallengeChapter 2. Forward to the Past in RussiaChapter 3. Iran's Paradoxical RegimeChapter 4. Iran AbroadChapter 5. Autocratic Legalism in VenezuelaChapter 6. Saudi Arabia's Anxious AutocratsPart II: Arenas of "Soft-Power" CompetitionChapter 7. Countering Democratic NormsChapter 8. Election Monitoring vs. DisinformationChapter 9. The Leninist Roots of Civil Society RepressionChapter 10. Civil Society Under AssaultChapter 11. The Kremlin's Information WarChapter 12. China's Foreign Propaganda MachineChapter 13. Cyberspace Under SiegeChapter 14. Dealing with the Authoritarian ResurgenceAbout the AuthorsIndex

The contributions of this volume are good, and the book as whole represents a solid primer on this new, more authoritarian, world order.—International Studies Review