Multipolar Challenge to Free Expression

Klappentext The rapid emergence of a multipolar world and the growing political and economic importance of a range of powers including China! India! Brazil and South Africa is increasingly having a significant impact on support for! and repression of! free expression. Many key international issues! from human rights to climate change and free trade! are no longer dominated either by one particular world view or split simply between two rival powers. While China and Russia remain at the repressive end of the spectrum! how widely free speech is defended internationally depends increasingly on the positions of countries like India and Brazil as much as on the values and practices of the US and Europe. In all these democracies! free speech is still in the ascendant but with too many examples of excessive constraints from internet surveillance and takedown requests to criminalisation of offensive speech. Zusammenfassung Index's special report will look at whether there is a multipolar challenge, where constraints at home and lack of courage and principle on the international stage, mean our right to free speech is at risk as the multipolar order continues to develop.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsty Hughes, Kirsty Schmidt Hughes, Kirsty Hughes
• Assisted by: Kirsty Hughes (Editor), Hughes Kirsty (Editor), Natasha Schmidt (Editor), Schmidt Natasha (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2013
• EAN: 9781446276303
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-7630-3
• No. of pages: 100
• Series: Index on Censorship; Index on Censorship
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Relations, Human rights, civil rights, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech