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December 24, 2020

Power 3.0 – 2020 Year-End Reading Recommendations

This is the time of year to relax, catch up on reading, and recharge our brains for the new year. As 2020 comes to a close, we're highlighting some of the most impactful pieces recommended to us and written by our blog authors and podcast guests, as well as other influential thinkers.

The International...

September 24, 2020

China, the Party, and the World: A Conversation with Mareike Ohlberg

In this episode, featured guest Mareike Ohlberg discusses how the Chinese Communist Party targets decision makers abroad through a mix of coercive, corrupting, and censorship-inducing strategies, with the aim of influencing narratives about the Party’s domestic and international legitimacy.

September 10, 2020

The Changing Global Media Landscape (Part II): A Conversation with Claire Wardle

In this episode of the Power 3.0 podcast, featured guest Claire Wardle discusses how the rapid spread of misinformation and disinformation has disrupted the global media space and offers suggestions for how journalists, media, digital platforms, and other civil society organizations can respond more...

August 25, 2020

Golden Passports: A Ticket to Transnational Kleptocracy

By Casey Michel

Over the past decade, citizenship-by-investment schemes have enabled a growing number of nations both large and small to buttress faltering budgets. From European jurisdictions like Malta and Portugal to Caribbean island-states like Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda—and even...

June 3, 2020

The Changing Global Media Landscape (Part I): A Conversation with Jamie Fly

In this episode of the Power 3.0 podcast, featured guest Jamie Fly discusses mounting pressures facing independent media outlets around the world, ranging from intensifying economic constraints resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, to increased competition from ambitious authoritarian and illiberal actors...