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the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena, Leading authoritarian countriesincluding China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuelahave developed new tools and strategies to contain the spread of democracy and challenge the liberal international political order.
Meanwhile, the advanced democracies have retreated, failing to respond to the threat posed by the authoritarians,

As undemocratic regimes become more assertive, they are working together to repress civil society while tightening their grip on cyberspace and expanding their reach in international media.
These political changes have fostered the emergence of new counternormssuch as the authoritarian subversion of credible election monitoringthat threaten to further erode the global standing of liberal democracy.


In Authoritarianism Goes Global, a distinguished group of contributors present fresh insights on the complicated issues surrounding the authoritarian resurgence and the implications of these systemic shifts for the international order.
This collection of essays is critical for advancing our understanding of the emerging challenges to democratic development,

Contributors: Anne Applebaum, AnneMarie Brady, Alexander Cooley, Javier Corrales, Ron Deibert, Larry Diamond, Patrick Merloe, Abbas Milani, Andrew Nathan, Marc F, Plattner, Peter Pomerantsev, Douglas Rutzen, Lilia Shevtsova, Alex Vatanka, Christopher Walker, and Frederic Wehrey Larry Jay Diamond born October,is a political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies.
He is a professor of Sociology and Political Science by courtesy at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank.
At Stanford he teaches courses on democratic development and supervises the democracy program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
He has published extensively in the fields of foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy, Diamond is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is Stanford Universitys main center for research on international issues.
At the Institute Diamond s Larry Jay Diamond born October,is a political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies.
He is a professor of Sociology and Political Science by courtesy at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank.
At Stanford he teaches courses on democratic development and supervises the democracy program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
He has published extensively in the fields of foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy, Diamond is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is Stanford Universitys main center for research on international issues.
At the Institute Diamond serves as the director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, The CDDRLs most recent accomplishment came in the spring ofby building

a technological community between Tahrir Square Cairo, Egypt and Silicon Valley California Bay Area.
This community was fully focused on helping mobilize protesters in Egypt who eventually helped in the downfall of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak, Diamond has served as an advisor to numerous governmental and international organizations at various points in his life, including the United States Department of State, United Nations, World Bank, and U.
S. Agency for International Development. He is a founding co editor of the National Endowment for Democracy's Journal of Democracy, He is also a coordinator of the Hoover Institution's Iran Democracy Project, along with Abbas Milani and Michael McFaul, sitelink.