Election Interference

The Supreme Court Judges TikTok

On January 10, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for TikTok, Inc. v. Garland, which will undoubtedly become a landmark case in both First Amendment and national security law....

Iran’s Election Provocation

The Iranians miscalculated. And they know it. During the 2024 election, the Islamic Republic not only engaged in political information warfare designed to defeat Donald Trump, but Tehran also contemplated...

Canada Releases Report on Chinese Election Interference

Imagine, if you will, the United States of America fifteen minutes or fifteen years into the future.  The country is at a fever pitch, thanks to public hearings of a...

Tell China: We Will Defend Our Democracy

Chinese election interference is on track to become just another cost of doing democracy in the West. From New Zealand to Australia, Canada to the United States, the liberal democracies...

Is China Winning the Information Race?

Jacob Heilbrunn: Is there an information race and should America be concerned about China’s attempt to construct its own global media? Joshua Kurlantzick: There is an information race, to be...

Russian Oligarch Boasts of Interfering in U.S. Midterm Elections

One day before the 2022 midterm elections in the United States, Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of a catering company associated with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the founder...

Why the Pentagon’s Disinformation Campaigns Crashed and Burned

The Pentagon announced this week that it will conduct a full-scale evaluation of its psychological operations capabilities, following revelations that it has been conducting covert online disinformation campaigns. Alongside analyzing...

Disinformation as Cyberharm: An Existential Threat to Democracies

As Carl von Clausewitz so famously put it, “war is merely the continuation of policy by other means.” He might have added that besides war, those “other means” traditionally included...

Iran’s Cyber Influence Strategy Poses Formidable Challenges for the West

When considering the Internet and security nexus, the bulk of Western attention tends to focus on cyber-espionage and cyber-sabotage operations—the hard power side of the story. Only recently, U.S. and...

Russia Doesn’t Need Military Force to Intimidate its Neighbors

Here’s What You Need to Know: It is not just the big countries such as Ukraine or NATO members like the Baltic States, Hungary or Romania that are under pressure from...

Durham’s Dry Hole and the Trump-Russia Connection

It has been more than two years since Trump administration Attorney General William Barr appointed John Durham, a U.S. attorney, as special counsel to investigate any possible illegal activity “in...

Cyber Spying Is a Fact of Life in International Relations

Americans concerned about cybersecurity and foreign influence operations may have been tempted to collectively exhale a sigh of relief in the immediate aftermath of the recent presidential election. Years of...