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New Index Takes the Pulse of China’s Growing and Dynamic Foreign Influence

October 21, 2025

New Index Takes the Pulse of China’s Growing and Dynamic Foreign Influence

By Sarah Cook

In just the past month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) added to its long track record of foreign influence....

Silencing Civil Society through Stigmatizing Narratives: A Conversation with Gina Romero

December 16, 2024

Silencing Civil Society through Stigmatizing Narratives: A Conversation with Gina Romero

The growing trend of “foreign agents" laws have targeted prodemocratic civil society groups and activists around the world. As a result, hostile narratives are established that stigmatize these groups, impeding the inherent rights of freedom to assembly, expression, and speech. These narratives often...

Influence Operations During Elections in the Philippines and Beyond: A Conversation with Michael Navallo

September 26, 2024

Influence Operations During Elections in the Philippines and Beyond: A Conversation with Michael Navallo

With more than fifty national elections taking place during 2024, in countries that comprise more than half the world’s population, it has never been more critical to secure the integrity of the information space—and never more challenging. The Philippines has been reckoning...

Authoritarian Influence and Local Enablers in the Balkans: A Conversation with Donika Emini

August 19, 2024

Authoritarian Influence and Local Enablers in the Balkans: A Conversation with Donika Emini

In the Balkans, governing elites who benefit from partnerships with democratic states and participation in the E.U. integration process are, in some cases, simultaneously furthering the autocratic agendas of Russia and China to leverage geopolitics to their advantage. Donika...

Caught Between Two Giants: How Mongolia’s Democracy Can Counter Authoritarian Propaganda

June 25, 2024

Caught Between Two Giants: How Mongolia’s Democracy Can Counter Authoritarian Propaganda

By Batsugar Tsedendamba

In 2024, nearly...

Podcast Episodes Transnational Kleptocracy

Countering Kleptocracy After Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Conversation with Jason Sharman

Posted on September 6, 2022

Russia’s war in Ukraine highlighted the transnational impact of kleptocracy in financing and empowering autocratic regimes. Russian oligarchs …

Podcast Episodes

We’re Back! Relaunching Power 3.0

Posted on September 6, 2022

Welcome back to the Power 3.0 podcast! Here at Power 3.0, we explore how new forms of authoritarian …

Norms and Institutions

Responding to COVID-19’s Impact on Democracy: Two and a Half Years Later

Posted on July 28, 2022

By Ryan Arick and Ariane Gottlieb Over the past two and a half years, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged societies and lives everywhere. Globally, …

Transnational Kleptocracy

Sanctioning Pipelines and Oligarchs Is Not a Silver Bullet to Stop Putin’s War in Ukraine

Posted on July 20, 2022

By Kate Watters After Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Western governments moved swiftly to sanction many …

Information Space Integrity

Lessons on Digital Authoritarianism from a Pro-Beijing Disinformation Network

Posted on July 7, 2022

By Marc Owen Jones Despite efforts by the EU and the U.S. governments to curtail Russian disinformation through …

Information Space Integrity

In Latin America, Fact-Checking Organizations and Cross-Regional Collaborations Attempt to Counter Russia’s Disinformation

Posted on July 6, 2022

By Claudia Flores-Saviaga and Deyra Guerrero At the Ninth Summit of the Americas (June 6-10, 2022), U.S. Secretary …

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