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Kevin Booher

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Energy & Environment Renewables & Advanced Energy

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Michelle Kholos Brooks

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Max Brooks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Crisis Management National Security

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Carlton Brinda

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Michael Callender

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Content

2018 Elections in Latin America

Jun 29, 2018

Marczak Quoted in CNBC on Mexico’s Presidential Election

By Jason Marczak

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Mexico

2018 Elections in Latin America

Jun 28, 2018

#ElectionWatch: Trending Beyond Borders in Mexico

By Ben Nimmo, Donara Barojan, Jose Luis Peñarredonda, and Kanishk Karan

Ahead of Mexico’s presidential election on July 1, a network of Facebook pages and Twitter accounts has been promoting partisan political messages, most of them attacking front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Disinformation
Elections

2018 Elections in Latin America

Jun 28, 2018

Nimmo Quoted in Reuters on Disinformation in Mexico’s Presidential Election

By Ben Nimmo

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Mexico

2018 Elections in Latin America

Jun 23, 2018

Pereira Quoted in O Globo on the Mexican Elections

By Katherine Pereira

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Mexico

2018 Elections in Latin America

Jun 23, 2018

Pereira Quoted in O Globo on the Mexican Elections

By Katherine Pereira

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Mexico

2018 Elections in Latin America

Jun 22, 2018

Iván Duque’s First 100 Days

By Leonardo Villar and Juan Felipe Celia

In one of the most consequential presidential elections in recent history, Colombians elected Iván Duque as their next president by a healthy twelve-point margin on June 17. In line with most predictions and election polls, uribismo regained power for the first time since former President Álvaro Uribe left office in 2010. With president-elect Duque set […]

UkraineAlert

Ukraine’s Got a Real Problem with Far-Right Violence (And No, RT Didn’t Write This Headline)

By Josh Cohen

It sounds like the stuff of Kremlin propaganda, but it’s not. Last week Hromadske Radio revealed that Ukraine’s Ministry of Youth and Sports is funding the neo-Nazi group C14 to promote “national patriotic education projects” in the country. On June 8, the Ministry announced that it will award C14 a little less than $17,000 for a […]

Russia
Ukraine

2018 Elections in Latin America

#ElectionWatch: Bots and Boosters in Mexico

By Ben Nimmo and Donara Barojan

Mexican political party the New Alliance (Nueva Alianza, or PANAL) has been benefiting from significant online amplification by a cluster of activists and probable Twitter bots, in the countdown to the country’s July 1 election.

Disinformation
Elections

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Syrian Refugees and Indigenous Canadians Foster Growing Communities

By Rose Gilbert

Canada has a reputation as a welcoming haven for refugees. But for some Indigenous Canadians, public support and funding for displaced people stands in stark contrast to their own communities, which remain impoverished and overlooked. Last year the nation welcomed 300,000 newcomers, including about 43,500 refugees and asylum seekers. Faced with President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies, […]

Middle East

Colombia Peace and Prosperity Task Force