In every episode of the Power 3.0 podcast, show co-hosts Christopher Walker and Shanthi Kalathil ask featured guests to share what they are currently reading that has informed their thinking. Since its launch in December 2018, the Power 3.0 podcast has been proud to host 17 experts who are on the cutting edge of rethinking how democratic societies and authoritarian regimes are contesting ideas in the era of globalization. These are their cumulative reading recommendations for audiences, organized by topic of discussion.

Emerging Technologies

• Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
• “AI, China, Russia, and the Global Order: Technological, Political, Global, and Creative Perspectives” edited by Nicholas D. Wright (NSI)
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
• The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb
• “China’s Algorithms of Repression: Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App” by Maya Wang (Human Rights Watch)
• “The State of Deepfakes 2019” (Deeptrace Labs)
• “Surveillance and Human Rights” report of the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and the Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
• “The Worldwide Web of Chinese and Russian Information Controls” by Valentin Weber (Open Tech Fund)
• Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat by John P. Carlin with Garrett M. Graff
• “Freedom on the Net 2018: The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism” (Freedom House)
• “Exporting Digital Authoritarianism: The Russian and Chinese Models” by Alina Polyakova and Chris Meserole (Brookings Institution)
• “The Road to Digital Unfreedom: Three Painful Truths About Social Media” by Ronald Deibert (Journal of Democracy)
• “Deepfakes and Synthetic Media: What Should We Fear? What Can We Do?” by Sam Gregory (WITNESS)
• “China’s Tech-Enhanced Authoritarianism” written testimony of Samantha Hoffman to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Disinformation and Media

• The People vs. Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) by Jamie Barlett
• This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
• Hostile Social Manipulation: Present Realities and Emerging Trends by Michael J. Mazarr, Abigail Casey, Alyssa Demus, Scott W. Harold, Luke J. Matthews, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, and James Sladden
• “The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation” by Samantha Bradshaw and Philip N. Howard (Oxford Internet Institute)
• Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanthan
• “Responding to Cognitive Security Challenges” by Sebastian Bay, Giorgio Bertolin, Nora Biteniece, Edward H. Christie, Anton Dek, Rolf E. Fredheim, John D. Gallacher, Kateryna Kononova, and Tetiana Marchenko (NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence)
• “GLOBSEC Trends 2019: Central & Eastern Europe 30 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain” by Daniel Milo, Katarína Klingová, and Dominika Hajdu (GLOBSEC)
• Disinformation and Authoritarian Tech weekly newsletter by Coda Story
• “The Quarter Billion Dollar Question: How is Disinformation Gaming Ad Tech?” (Global Disinformation Index)
• “Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral” by Sarah Repucci (Freedom House)
• World Brain by H.G. Wells

China’s Authoritarian Influence

• The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
• The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim
• China’s Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle by Dinny McMahon
• Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
• “China-UK Relations: Where to Draw the Border Between Influence and Interference” by Charles Parton (Royal United Services Institute)
• “Rethinking Empire from a Chinese Concept ‘All-Under-Heaven’” by Tingyang Zhao
• “Influence and Infrastructure: The Strategic Stakes of Foreign Projects” by Jonathan E. Hillman (Center for Strategic & International Studies)
• “China’s Long Game on Human Rights at the United Nations” by Ted Piccone (Brookings Institution)
• Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall by Margaret E. Roberts
• “The Road to Digital Unfreedom: President Xi’s Surveillance State” by Xiao Qiang (Journal of Democracy)
• “Turning Scholars into Unpersons” by Glenn Tiffert (Hoover Digest)
• “Chinese Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance” edited by Larry Diamond and Orville Schell (Hoover Institution)
• China’s Eurasian Century: Political and Strategic Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative by Nadège Rolland
• Sinopsis website

Russia’s Authoritarian Influence

• The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
• The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News by Arkady Ostrovsky
• The Code of Putinism by Brian D. Taylor
• Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent
• Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia by Karen Dawisha

Transnational Kleptocracy

• The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption by J.C. Sharman
• The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth by Tom Burgis
• Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw
• “To Catch A Kleptocrat: Lessons Learn from the Biens Mal Acquis Trials in France” by Tutu Alicante (International Forum for Democratic Studies)
• “Sassou-Nguesso’s Laundromat: A Congolese State Affair – Part II” (Global Witness)
• The Triumph of Justice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
• “Dismantling the Authoritarian-Corruption Nexus” by Clay R. Fuller (American Enterprise Institute)
• The Godfather-in-Law: The Real Documentation by Rakhat Aliyev
• Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World by Oliver Bullough
• Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project website

Democratic Norms and Ideas

• “Democracy’s ‘Near Misses’” by Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq (Journal of Democracy)
• “Democracy & Disorder: The Struggle for Influence in the New Geopolitics” by Bruce Jones and Torrey Taussig (Brookings Institution)
• The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups by Mancur Olson Jr.
• The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
• The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World by Robert Kagan
• Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy by William Galston
• The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It by Yascha Mounk
• Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat by Jan Zielonka
• Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama
• History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism by Boris Groys
• La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono
• “How Russia and China Undermine Democracy” by Andrea Kendall-Taylor and David Shullman (Center for A New American Security)
• “Illiberal Democracy and the Struggle on the Right” by Marc F. Plattner (Journal of Democracy)
• “The Globalization of Polarization” by Moisés Naím (El País)