2016 presidential election
Mark Dillen explores the Trump administration's response to Russia's current disinformation campaign.
An interview with Anne Applebaum about disinformation, soft power, and Russia.
Markos Kounalakis argues that Cuba played an important and overlooked role in the 2016 presidential election.
Over 200 years ago, President George Washington warned Americans about foreign powers undermining American democracy by tampering “with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils.” In the present, we are finding that old threats are new again as the United States is challenged by Russia’s strategic communication efforts targeting both our domestic politics and international interests.
Russia's public diplomacy strategy of disinformation displays not soft power but rather "wicked power," writes Erik Nisbet.
One major casualty of Donald Trump’s victory in the bruising US presidential election is, without a doubt, America’s soft power around the world. It is a development that will be difficult – perhaps even impossible – to reverse, especially for Trump. [...] America’s domestic narrative soon overcame its foreign-policy setbacks, thanks partly to today’s unprecedented connectivity.