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Transnational Repression
Recent years have seen a growth in the trend of authoritarian states using connectivity in communications and the movement of people to expand their apparatus of repression to target critics, journalists, minority groups, and everyday people residing outside their countries of origin.
Transnational repression, or the methods and means by which states target their nationals abroad, is constantly growing in both scale and complexity. While the governments of liberal democracies have long been aware of transnational repression, their responses have been insufficient, and understanding of transnational repression among policymakers and the public remains limited.
The New Lines Institute’s Transnational Repression Portfolio seeks to better inform policymakers about transnational repression and equip them with concrete policy recommendations for combating it. Our Working Group of experts and scholars produces relevant and in-depth research highlighting key areas of focus in the fight against transnational repression, providing actionable policy recommendations for how liberal democracies can better defend national sovereignty against bad actors seeking to perpetrate transnational repression within their borders.
Read the portfolio’s first report, What the U.S. Can Do To Address Transnational Repression Within Its Borders
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The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy publishes work that combines geopolitical insight with subject-matter expertise. New Lines Institute publications examine tactical developments involving regimes, nonstate actors, local politics, ideologies, etc. Our work situates them in the strategic context of macro-level factors such as geography, populations, economics, military power, history, and culture. All our content must demonstrate analytical empathy and is geared toward advancing the cause of human security and stabilization and development on our planet. That said, we do not publish “op-ed” pieces, polemical content, or activist/advocacy work.
We welcome contributions from diverse experts with various sub-specialties to ensure that we consistently produce the highest-quality product. Our team firmly believes that expertise exists across the political spectrum and disciplinary fields; the key is to help our authors showcase it without indulging in partisan discussions. We expect our authors to focus on the how, why and (most importantly) the what next because our audience is already very familiar with the who, what, where, and when of the subjects we tackle.