| September 2, 2020 | View in Browser With the presidential election only two months away, will the United States be able to guard against foreign meddling?
In our January/February 2018 issue, Joe Biden and Michael Carpenter called on the United States and its allies to join forces to counter Russia’s attempts to undermine Western democracy. A year later, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and former Secretary-General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen followed up with a bipartisan, transatlantic strategy to combat electoral meddling. “Unless the transatlantic community stands together,” Chertoff and Rasmussen wrote, “malign foreign powers will continue to pick off democracies one by one.”
In the four years since the last U.S. presidential election, Alina Polyakova warns, Russia’s disinformation tactics have grown more sophisticated—and other countries, from China to Iran to Venezuela, have entered the disinformation game. “In all likelihood, 2020 will not be a replay of 2016,” Polyakova writes. “It will be far worse.” The Kremlin’s Plot Against Democracy How Russia Updated Its 2016 Playbook for 2020 By Alina Polyakova How to Stand Up to the Kremlin Defending Democracy Against Its Enemies By Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and Michael Carpenter The Unhackable Election What It Takes to Defend Democracy By Michael Chertoff and Anders Fogh Rasmussen This special election coverage is made possible in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Subscribe Today and Save 55% New Subscribers Get a Free eBook JOIN FOREIGN AFFAIRS Copyright 2020 Council on Foreign Relations, Inc All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Subscribe If you wish to unsubscribe from this newsletter, please click here. | 