ASD convenes transatlantic policymakers, elected officials, academics, technical experts, and leaders from civil society and the private sector to address the urgent need to secure our democracies, create a common understanding of the techniques used to undermine democracies, and share lessons learned about effective defensive and deterrent strategies.
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and former acting CIA director Michael Morell discuss ASD’s Policy Blueprint for Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on June 26, 2018.
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ASD’s Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly at Florida International University
ASD Co-directors Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly take part in a panel discussion on Russian and Venezuelan interference at Florida International University in Miami. Russia is using propaganda to exploit American divisions on the turmoil in [...]
ASD’s Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly at the University of Texas-Austin
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, moderates a discussion on authoritarian interference in democracies. The panel features Jamie [...]
ASD’s Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly at the George W. Bush Presidential Center
Bush Institute Human Freedom Fellow Thomas O. Melia interviews Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly about how foreign actors are attempting to use social media to undermine democracy here and abroad. [...]
ASD’s Joshua Kirschenbaum at the European Parliament
ASD's Joshua Kirschenbaum Testifies before the European Parliament Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance [...]
Joshua Kirschenbaum’s Testimony before the European Parliament Special Committee on Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance
Statement of JOSHUA KIRSCHENBAUM Alliance for Securing Democracy, the German Marshall Fund of the United States BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL CRIMES, TAX EVASION AND TAX AVOIDANCE Concerning “Money laundering cases involving Russian ind [...]
Analyzing Russian Interference Operations Across Time and Space: Launch of a New Interactive Tool – EUROPE
The Russian government’s interference operations pose a national security threat to democracies across the transatlantic space. Understanding the patterns and evolution of these operations over the past two decades is critical to combatting them. Pl [...]
Analyzing Russian Interference Operations Across Time and Space: Launch of a New Interactive Tool hosted by Alliance for Securing Democracy
Please join the Alliance for Securing Democracy, Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), Estonian Ambassador to the United States Jonatan Vseviov, and GMF President Dr. Karen Donfried on December 4 to discuss how Russia’s interference [...]
Does Europe’s Anti Money Laundering Framework Need a Regime Change?
A series of banking scandals in multiple EU countries has underlined the shortcomings of Europe's anti-money laundering regime. At a recent event hosted by Bruegel, panelists discussed a new proposal sketched in a recent paper by Nicolas Veron and J [...]
Truth and Deception: Making Democracies Fit for the Age of Disinformation
ASD's Social Media Analyst and Communications Officer Bret Schafer will lead three workshops exploring the use of technology to combat digital disinformation at the DAI Heidelberg (Germany) Cultural Center. Event details are below: In this turbulen [...]
Launch of Policy Blueprint for Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies
The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) held a discussion with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and former acting CIA director Michael Morell on Tuesday, June 26 to launch ASD’s Policy Blue [...]
Age of Bots and Robotisation of Truth
ASD’s co-director Laura Rosenberger joined GLOBSEC 2018’s panel “Age of Bots and Robotisation of Truth,” where she explained that “when we’re talking about the role of information on the internet and on social media, there’s a lot of focus on bots i [...]
Populism: Is the Tide Over Yet?
Jamie Fly moderated a GLOBSEC panel “Populism: Is the Tide Over Yet?”: “The impact is not just on our own democratic politics and a question about whether we’re providing solutions to the voters and responding to their demands, it’s also impacting o [...]