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Digital Dictators: Media, Authoritarianism, and America’s New Challenge
The 2016 elections in the United States exposed a massive campaign of subversion and interference carried out by Russia and aimed at undermining the inner workings of American democracy.
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Iran Strategy Brief No. 13: Reforming U.S. Persian Language Media - A preliminary Assessment
In the Spring of 2017, the management of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the U.S. government’s official coordinating body for international media, approached the American Foreign Policy Council with a request. In response to persistent criticism from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as well as mounting pressure from the newly-inaugurated Trump administration, the agency sought to commission an independent review of the content of its Persian-language media outreach. Such a process, BBG professionals explained, would help the agency to identify and rectify significant deficiencies at a time when the role of U.S. broadcasting toward the Islamic Republic was a topic of growing scrutiny (and skepticism) among those formulating the country’s strategy toward Iran...
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Latest In-House Bulletins
China Reform Monitor No. 1367
Pentagon jitters over Google-China collaboration;
A sterner European line on China;
China, Italy draw closer;
Another billion for Sri Lanka
Defense Technology Monitor No. 39
Russia's new dazzling disorienter;
Russian nuclear-powered missile could cruise for days;
U.S. Army casts net to capture drones;
Chinese drones trending toward autonomy and lethality;
A step closer to super soldiers
Global Islamism Monitor No. 63
Toward a truce with the Taliban;
Malaysia cracks down on anti-Islam sentiment;
ISIS thrives in the Philippines;
What should be done with ISIS children?;
Kyrgyzstan gets serious about online radicalization;
Pakistan belatedly moves against banned groups
Iran Democracy Monitor 194
The Ayatollah prefers guns over butter;
Tehran leads in executions, again;
Gulf worries over Iranian intentions;
Israel redoubles its Syria commitment;
The true cost of U.S. sanctions
Resource Security Watch No. 17
Kerala under quarantine;
Rising temperatures a challenge for millions in South Asia;
Ankara, Baghdad come to hydrological terms;
A bug-heat link;
The DRC gets aheads of the Ebola crisis
Russia Reform Monitor No. 2304
Back to arms control?;
The shadow rulers of captured states;
A growing Russian presence in Venezuela;
Russia's nervous press toes the official line;
Moscow's military mind control