A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Laura Rosenberger Selected for National Security Council Staff
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 [...]
GMF’s What to Watch in 2021
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 [...]
David Levine in The Hill: Biden Should Appoint A Presidential Commission on Election Security
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 [...]
Defending Democracy in the Digital World: A Conversation with Lindsay Gorman and Marietje Schaake
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 [...]
Zack Cooper and Laura Rosenberger in Foreign Affairs: Democratic Values Are a Competitive Advantage
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 [...]
Jessica Brandt on How China’s “Wolf Warrior” Diplomats Use Twitter to Troll Beijing’s Enemies in Vox
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 [...]
David Levine Discusses 2020 Election Security with GovExec
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 [...]
ASD Releases The Weaponized Web: How Authoritarians Exploit the Digital Advertising Ecosystem
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 [...]
Future-Proofing the Alliance with Nad’a Kovalčíková and NATO’s Head of Policy Planning Dr. Benedetta Berti
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 [...]
Nad’a Kovalčíková and Ariane Tabatabai: What Should Be Done Next to Counter the COVID-19 Infodemic?
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 [...]
Zack Cooper in Financial Review: Free Nations Must Speak for Australia
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 [...]
Ariane Tabatabai Discusses the Future of U.S.-Iranian Relations on ‘Skimm This’
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. [...]