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.
Article
How Russia’s Intelligence Agencies Menace the UK
Andrew Foxall
Henry Jackson Society, 2018
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
Report
Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
Heather A. Conley
CSIS, 2016
Craig Silverman
Buzzfeed, 2018
Article
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.
Charlie Warzel
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
Book
Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
Marvin Kalb
Brookings Institution Press, 2015
Continuity and Change in Russian Disinformation
Jon White
IES, 2016
