
Sharp Power
While by no means a new phenomenon, strategic efforts mostly by authoritarian regimes to weaken their adversaries by means of media manipulation or stealth propaganda have, in our age of digital mass communication, reached new levels of effectiveness and sophistication. These summaries present the latest research and offer policy recommendations.
Book
The Weaponization of Social Media
Emerson T. Brooking and P. W. Singer
Houghton Mifflin, 2018
Article
How Russia’s Intelligence Agencies Menace the UK
Andrew Foxall
Henry Jackson Society, 2018
Article
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.
Charlie Warzel
Buzzfeed, 2018
Craig Silverman
Buzzfeed, 2018
Report
An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life
Michael D. Rich
Rand Corporation, 2018
Dmitri Trenin
Polity Press, 2016
Continuity and Change in Russian Disinformation
Jon White
IES, 2016
How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.
Jim Rutenberg
New York Times Magazine, 2017
Book
Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
Marvin Kalb
Brookings Institution Press, 2015