Power 3.0: Understanding Modern Authoritarian Influence - Exploring how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive in a globalized information age, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge.

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...

Digital IDs and Coercion in China and Venezuela: A Conversation with Iria Puyosa and Valentin Weber

June 13, 2024

Digital IDs and Coercion in China and Venezuela: A Conversation with Iria Puyosa and Valentin Weber

Globally, democratic activists are confronting novel forms of digital repression pioneered by autocrats who increasingly share software, hardware, and knowledge across borders. Notably, the People’s Republic of China has developed a heavily coercive governance model which it...

Lessons Learned from Georgian Civil Society’s Response to a Repressive “Foreign Agents” Law: A Conversation with Tinatin Khidasheli

May 9, 2024

Lessons Learned from Georgian Civil Society’s Response to a Repressive “Foreign Agents” Law: A Conversation with Tinatin Khidasheli

Around the world, threats to freedom of expression and association are growing. One crucial example is found in Georgia, a struggling democracy with a population of just under four million people. Last year, the Georgian parliament withdrew proposed legislation targeting so-called...