Authors: Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google Inc., and Jared Cohen, Adjunct Senior Fellow
November/December 2010
Foreign Affairs
Increased connectivity allows for the spread of liberal, open values but also poses a number of dangers. To foster the free flow of information and challenge authoritarian regimes, democratic states will have to learn to create alliances with people and companies at the forefront of the information revolution.
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