practitioners of statecraft in Assyria, India and China1 → States and non-state actors are engaged in a warn us that the word is mightier than the sword, quest for narrative dominance — to shape the that the power of knowledge is superior to force and landscape of public opinion in their favour. [...] at the Institute of South Asian Studies → Protect the cognitive autonomy of individual at the National University of Singapore, citizens, unfettered public discourse and the and serves on the board of Jal Seva policy autonomy of its leadership. [...] The experiences of the Soviet Union, Mao-era China and the Communist bloc during the Cold War are instructive and warn us of putting unchecked The Information Domain information power in the hands of the state. [...] It is possible to visualize the cross-section of If democratic societies escaped the fate of their the information domain as consisting of four authoritarian counterparts in the twentieth concentric strategic levels: the general epistemic, century, it may be because their political structures the contextual epistemic, the directive and the dispersed power and instituted checks and executive. [...] The greater the diversity of opinion → Promote free and competitive media, and the decision makers have access to, the broader prevent the concentration of narrative power.
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