What effect is China's successful autocracy having on global politics? Is it leading to the decline of democracy, and the rise of 'strong man' government worldwide?China's success economically, this collection argues, is undermining the post-war consensus that 'liberal democracy is best'. In a multi-polar, Chinese-dominated world, Trump, Putin, Erdogan, and other global leaders no longer criticize China. In fact, they frequently invoke the usefulness of 'strong' and 'united' leader...

This unique compendium provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art methods in the extremely 'hot' area of online propaganda detection and monitoring. It discusses the difficulties of developing automated methods and systems for online propaganda and misinformation detection, along with the potential contributions of machine learning techniques.The presented methods are built upon the latest AI and Natural Language Processing technologies. Case studies refer to recent ...