Shanthi Kalathil
Senior Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies
National Endowment for Democracy
Shanthi Kalathil is senior director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Her work focuses primarily on authoritarian challenges to democracy in the information age. Previously in her career, she served as a senior democracy fellow at the US Agency for International Development, an associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as a consultant for the World Bank and other international affairs organizations. Kalathil has authored or edited numerous policy and scholarly publications, including Diplomacy, Development and Security in the Information Age (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 2013) and (with Taylor C. Boas) Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003). She was formerly a Hong Kong-based reporter for the Asian Wall Street Journal.
Recent Publications & News
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Russia-China: Debating the Significance of the Partnership
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By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Robert Sutter, Greg Miller, Jeanne Wilson & Shanthi Kalathil
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Influence for Sale? China’s Trade, Investment and Assistance Policies in Southeast Asia
By Shanthi Kalathil
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