ASD convenes transatlantic policymakers, elected officials, academics, technical experts, and leaders from civil society and the private sector to address the urgent need to secure our democracies, create a common understanding of the techniques used to undermine democracies, and share lessons learned about effective defensive and deterrent strategies.
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and former acting CIA director Michael Morell discuss ASD’s Policy Blueprint for Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on June 26, 2018.
Past Events
Analyzing Russian Interference Operations Across Time and Space: Launch of a New Interactive Tool – EUROPE
The Russian government’s interference operations pose a national security threat to democracies across the transatlantic space. Understanding the patterns and evolution of these operations over the past two decades is critical to combatting them. Pl [...]
Analyzing Russian Interference Operations Across Time and Space: Launch of a New Interactive Tool hosted by Alliance for Securing Democracy
Please join the Alliance for Securing Democracy, Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), Estonian Ambassador to the United States Jonatan Vseviov, and GMF President Dr. Karen Donfried on December 4 to discuss how Russia’s interference [...]
Does Europe’s Anti Money Laundering Framework Need a Regime Change?
A series of banking scandals in multiple EU countries has underlined the shortcomings of Europe's anti-money laundering regime. At a recent event hosted by Bruegel, panelists discussed a new proposal sketched in a recent paper by Nicolas Veron and J [...]
Truth and Deception: Making Democracies Fit for the Age of Disinformation
ASD's Social Media Analyst and Communications Officer Bret Schafer will lead three workshops exploring the use of technology to combat digital disinformation at the DAI Heidelberg (Germany) Cultural Center. Event details are below: In this turbulen [...]
Launch of Policy Blueprint for Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies
The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) held a discussion with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and former acting CIA director Michael Morell on Tuesday, June 26 to launch ASD’s Policy Blue [...]
Age of Bots and Robotisation of Truth
ASD’s co-director Laura Rosenberger joined GLOBSEC 2018’s panel “Age of Bots and Robotisation of Truth,” where she explained that “when we’re talking about the role of information on the internet and on social media, there’s a lot of focus on bots i [...]
Populism: Is the Tide Over Yet?
Jamie Fly moderated a GLOBSEC panel “Populism: Is the Tide Over Yet?”: “The impact is not just on our own democratic politics and a question about whether we’re providing solutions to the voters and responding to their demands, it’s also impacting o [...]
Breaking the News: How Bots, Trolls and Other Media Manipulators Threaten Our Politics
David Salvo discusses Russian disinformation campaigns in the United States as a tool to amplify existing divisions within society and potentially interfere in an election campaign. The Public Policy Forum and University of British Columbia hosted t [...]
What Works: Countering Gray Zone Tactics
ASD’s co-director Jamie Fly joined a panel at CSIS, “What Works: Countering Gray Zone Tactics,” where he discussed unconventional tools used by state and non-state adversaries to influence and coerce Western democracies: “It’s important to recognize [...]
Under Attack: The Russian Government’s Plot to Undermine Democracy
The Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly joined the Chicago Institute of Politics to discuss the Russian government's efforts to undermine democracy, where they clarified: “This is not just something that was happening i [...]
Securing Democracy at Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to discuss how future U.S. elections can be secured from outside influence: “We see real attacks on the pillars of democracy and elections is one piece of that. The work we [...]
2018 Skroll World Forum
At the Skroll 2018 World Forum, Laura Rosenberger joined the “Social Media Platforms: Influence and Ethics” panel to discuss the future of the digital public square, and debate the role of social media companies in public discourse. [...]