BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians continue their investigation of these techniques and liticized censorship of artistic content. We also urge the experiment with ways to combat them. technology industry to refuse business arrangements that require active complicity in or passive acceptance We also urge more intense coverage of Beijing's efforts of political censorship or information control. to undermine democratic norms in neighboring states or territories, as in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and its To the European Union: We urge the EU to undertake largely successful attempts to pressure other govern- a comprehensive review of member states’ democrat- ments into repatriating citizens who had fled persecu- ic institutions to determine whether recent changes tion in China. have weakened checks and balances or unduly protected incumbent parties from fair electoral com- Lastly, the media are not doing their job if they neglect petition. The EU should adopt measures to publicize to give aggressive coverage to the lobbyists and pub- departures from democratic standards and develop lic-relations specialists who make money by repre- a new set of sanctions that could be imposed on senting dictators and kleptocrats. Those who flack for noncompliant governments—whether inside, outside, the leaders of China, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and their ilk or hoping to join the bloc—even in the absence of should be made to answer for each political prisoner, unanimity among member states. In the meantime, murdered opposition figure, shuttered newspaper, and the EU should use the sanctions already in place, even offshore account full of stolen funds that can be tied if it means freezing a member state's participation, to their authoritarian clients. and be prepared to actually impose any new sanctions that might be introduced. To the academic community: We urge academic associations, individual scholars, and university To private foundations: We urge pr