A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Great power competition can't be won on interests alone, Co-Director Zack Cooper and Hal Brands argue in Foreign Affairs. On the campaign trail, U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to put values at the heart of his administration’s China policy. Sinc [...]
There are two possible outcomes of U.S.-China competition—but Washington should prepare for the more turbulent one, Co-Director Zack Cooper and Hal Brands argue in Foreign Policy. Competition between the United States and China has begun, but how [...]
Listen to USC Election Cybersecurity Executive Director, Adam Clayton Powell, III and Cybersecurity Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States, and USC Election Security Analyst, Maurice Turner, introduce USC [...]
Russia and China, as well as Iran to a certain extent, have used the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to interfere into democratic discourse and to present themselves as internationally responsible actors, while at the same time undermining de [...]
This article was originally published on GW International Law and Policy Brief's website. Election observers help ensure that elections are conducted in a democratic manner, as recognized by international law. Paragraph 8 of the 1990 Organization f [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined Ilana Bet-El, one of the founders of WIIS Brussels & former UN official, and Lieutenant General Frances Allen, military representative of Canada to the NATO Military Committee, to discuss women [...]
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer joined Josh Hamilton on The Jist. Bret and Josh first spoke three to discuss the weaponization of information and the threat to democracy. Now, three years later, things have unfortunately not gott [...]
Chris, Zack, and Melanie sit down to discuss U.S. sanctions programs and how to make them more effective. In a recent War on the Rocks article focused on sanctions, Edward Fishman argues that the United States needs to take a hard look at our econom [...]
Nobody has suffered serious legal consequences for actively welcoming—some say aiding and abetting—Russian interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections, or for having asked the presidents of Ukraine and China to similarly interfere. One reason for th [...]
China overtook the U.S. as the EU’s main trading partner in 2020. Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman spoke to David Westin about the national security implications of this news, as well as the national security aspects of emerging technolog [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined the European People's Party podcast to discuss lessons learned from the Covid-19 infodemic, authoritarian countries’ effort to undermine democracies, the role of good and bad communication strategi [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights for an interview as part of their “AI and Covid-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative” series in partnership with the Organization for Security a [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights for an interview as part of their "AI and Covid-19 Digital Disinformation Initiative" series in partnership with the Organization for Security a [...]
Malign Finance Fellow Josh Rudolph joined "The Power Vertical" to discuss how the Biden administration can combat corruption and kleptocracy. Russia’s banks can be as dangerous as Russia’s tanks. Corruption is the new Communism. The Kremlin’s black [...]
THE ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY EXPANDS AUTHORITARIAN INTERFERENCE TRACKER TO INCLUDE CHINA Interactive tool catalogues over 160 examples of China’s efforts to undermine democracy in 24 countries Washington, D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Demo [...]
ASD’s Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine and the Center for Democracy and Technology's Senior Technologist in Elections and Democracy William T. Adler argue that President Biden should establish a bipartisan presidential commission to identify [...]
In response to President Biden’s first foreign policy address of his administration, Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina talks with Deutsche Welle about the speech’s reversion to an America before “the age of Donald Trump,” the embattled transatlantic re [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková spoke to RTVS on the occasion of the Vice President European Commissioner Věra Jourová’s virtual visit to Slovakia. She commented on the Commission’s European Democracy Action Plan, other recent efforts t [...]
David Levine and William T. Adler’s report Trusting the Vote: Establishing a Presidential Commission on Election Resilience and Trust is highlighted in The Fulcrum. At a time when democracy feels most fragile, in the wake of a divisive election fu [...]
David Levine and William T. Adler's report Trusting the Vote: Establishing a Presidential Commission on Election Resilience and Trust is featured in CyberScoop. There’s a brief window for the Biden administration to boost Americans’ trust in the vo [...]
Tonya Riley gives an exclusive first look at David Levine and William T. Adler's report, Trusting the Vote: Establishing a Presidential Commission on Election Resilience and Trust, in The Washington Post's Cyber 202. After a volatile election cycl [...]
CONTACT: Rachael Dean Wilson, press@securingdemocracy.org; Elizabeth Seeger, press@cdt.org Washington, D.C.— Experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) and the Cent [...]
ASD Emerging Technologies Fellow Lindsay Gorman and CNAS' Martijn Rasser join Carisa Nietsche to discuss future priorities and approaches on technology policy within the transatlantic alliance on CNAS' "Brussels Sprouts" podcast. Brussels Sprouts · [...]
In his new YouTube series Trust But Verify, Non-Resident Fellow Clint Watts looks at different parts of Russia's information manipulation operations and their impact on the United States. It’s now common knowledge that Russia has an interest in in [...]
The 2016 and 2020 campaign seasons and the subsequent government response normalized a damaging notion: that soliciting or participating in foreign interference in a U.S. election will not be prosecuted. Foreign governments from Beijing to Moscow an [...]
An open position in China is an opportunity to show U.S. diversity. At a critical time in U.S.-China relations, one of the most important roles is vacant. U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad stepped down from his post last October, and, amid th [...]
Alliance for Securing Democracy Director and GMF Senior Fellow Laura Rosenberger Selected for National Security Council Staff Washington, D.C. (January 15, 2021)—The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) congratulates Laura Rosenberger, Se [...]
This article was originally published on GMF's blog on January 8, 2021. As the world watched with growing disbelief, the end of 2020 and the start of 2021 merged into a long transition as Donald Trump’s refusal to concede that he had lost last Nove [...]
While the legitimacy and outcome of the 2020 presidential election have long been beyond reproach, some could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. A few weeks ago, the Republican U.S. Senators from Georgia requested that the state’s Republican Secret [...]
In 2020, the role of technology as a playing field in the geopolitical struggle between democracy and authoritarianism was magnified. While some governments like China seized control of their information environments; democracies were disadvantaged [...]
The contest with authoritarianism requires the United States to understand its strengths. Upon winning the presidency, Joe Biden promised to lead “not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.” That pledge is important, because [...]
Head of Policy and Research Jessica Brandt spoke to Vox's Alex Ward about China's information manipulation tactics. China has a new weapon in its global information warfare arsenal: “wolf warriors.” Named after a popular Chinese nationalistic film [...]
Election Integrity Fellow David Levine joined "GovExec Daily" to discuss how elections can be more secure in the wake of the recent presidential contest. While the 2020 general election is not quite over until the Georgia Senate runoff is decided i [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Lindsay Gorman and Bret Schafer teamed up with civic tech entrepreneur Clara Tsao and Harvard’s Dipayan Ghosh to explore national security vulnerabilities in the online information ecosystem in a series of paper [...]
A complex transatlantic alliance of 30 countries, NATO has not been immune to the impacts of the pandemic. From day-to-day operations to bigger picture strategic thinking, the Alliance has had to adapt on many levels. Now as NATO wraps up this extra [...]
As governments and citizens around the world have struggled with the novel coronavirus, the information space has turned into a battleground. Authoritarian countries, including Russia, China and Iran, have spread disinformation on the causes of and [...]
Co-Director Zack Cooper and Oriana Skylar Mastro write that the Biden administration needs to rethink the entire nature of alliances for an era of heavy-handed economic diplomacy from Beijing. Australia's trials are not the first time Beijing has u [...]
Middle East Fellow Ariane Tabatabai joined The Skimm's "Skimm This" to discuss the recent killing of a top Iranian nuclear scientist and how that might impact the incoming Biden administration's plans. [...]
While much has been reported about the security of the 2020 election, there is one critical area many news reports are missing—the security and protection of the people carrying out the election, and that has fallen woefully short. Securing election [...]
The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top nuclear scientist, will complicate the incoming Biden administration’s efforts to renew the nuclear deal—and could lead to escalation. Last Friday, Iran announced that an important player in its security app [...]