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The Human Security Program (HSP) is designed to generate actionable insights into how authoritarian regimes sustain power and how those systems can be challenged to advance liberty. Autocratic governments have adapted and learned from one another, developing increasingly sophisticated approaches to undermine representative government and export coercive models of control. In response, movements that advocate for representative government, liberty, freedom, and rule of law must evolve and adapt. Yet the study of how repressive regimes operate and the strategies most effective in challenging the mechanisms of authoritarian control remains fragmented. HSP consolidates historical lessons, supports practical research, and cultivates strategic thinking aimed at loosening authoritarian control and strengthening the forces of liberty and freedom.

At its core, HSP develops and refines strategies that enable pro-democracy movements to counter authoritarian control and expand political freedom. The program combines academic and practitioner analysis, coalition building among stakeholders, and experiential learning to test and sharpen the effectiveness of these strategies in real-world conditions.

Liberty Amplified
Liberty Amplified

Liberty Amplified features the voices of those who defy autocracy in pursuit of freedom as part of the Hoover Institution’s Human Security Project (HSP). Led by Lt. Gen. (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and 26th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs, (HSP) pursues research, generates actionable insights, strategies, and tools for understanding how authoritarian regimes sustain power and how pro-democracy groups and like-minded allies can challenge those systems to advance liberty. HSP serves as an educational resource and tool for activists in-country and those externally, promoting freedom and democracy.

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