Hacking the Election: Lessons from the DEF CON Voting Village

New Atlanticist
May 7, 2025

What will Labor’s landslide mean for Australia’s foreign policy?

By
Peter J. Dean

While Australian voters clearly rejected the Trump administration, both the country’s leaders and electorate still support close US ties.

Australia
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Hacking the Election: Lessons from the DEF CON Voting Village

New Atlanticist
May 6, 2025

Is Merz’s double-take chancellor vote a sign of things to come in Germany?

By
Jörn Fleck and Jurek Wille

It took two rounds of voting in the Bundestag to elect Friedrich Merz chancellor, a sign of division unprecedented in modern German history.

Defense Policy
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Hacking the Election: Lessons from the DEF CON Voting Village

New Atlanticist
May 1, 2025

Foreign policy was a hot topic in Canada’s election. Now it’s on Carney to make it last.

By
Imran Bayoumi, Maite Gonzalez Latorre

The campaign is over. Now, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faces several important choices, from how to increase defense spending to what a new relationship with the United States should look like.

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Transatlantic Horizons

Charting an ambitious agenda for the United States and Europe for 2025 and beyond.

Hacking the Election: Lessons from the DEF CON Voting Village

Inflection Points Today
Feb 24, 2025

History’s clock is ticking (again) in Germany

Likely incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s election-night mention of the need for “independence” from Washington signals the stakes of this moment for Germany and Europe.

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Hacking the Election: Lessons from the DEF CON Voting Village

New Atlanticist
Feb 4, 2025

The next German chancellor must lead from the front, not the middle, on European security

By
Rachel Rizzo, James Batchik

From support for Ukraine to defense spending, German leaders would be wise to take the phrase Führung aus der Mitte permanently out of their vocabulary.

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Hacking the Election: Lessons from the DEF CON Voting Village

New Atlanticist
Feb 19, 2025

Germany’s economy has gone from engine to anchor. Here’s what the next chancellor faces.

By
Piotr Arak

Revitalizing growth in Germany’s economy, which appears increasingly mired in stagnation, will demand urgent action from the next chancellor.

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Event Recap

Nov 30, 2017

Hacking the Election: Lessons from the DEF CON Voting Village

By Priscilla Kim

On October 10th, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and DEF CON hosted a public event on the vulnerabilities in US voting infrastructure and recommendations for a path forward in securing our democracy. Panelists included Ambassador Douglas Lute, former US permanent representative to NATO; Jeff Moss, founder of DEF CON and senior fellow for the […]

Cybersecurity Elections

Report

Nov 28, 2017

Forging a New Era in US-South African Relations

By Anthony Carroll

As one of the African continent’s largest and most sophisticated economies, South Africa offers a myriad of opportunities for engagement with the United States on diplomatic, commercial, security, and social fronts. It is a self-sufficient, complex, and dynamic country in a struggling, complex, and dynamic region. Yet, the centrality of South Africa to the United […]

Africa Corruption

Event Recap

Oct 16, 2017

Negotiating democracy and security in Kenya

By Africa Center

On Monday, October 16, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, in collaboration with the International Republican Institute (IRI), hosted Ambassador Martin Kimani, director of Kenya’s National Counter Terrorism Centre and special envoy for countering violent extremism, and Dr. Korir Sing’Oei, legal adviser in the executive office of the deputy president of Kenya, for a private roundtable […]

Africa East Africa

Event Recap

Oct 5, 2017

Briefing on the Electoral Commission’s plans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Africa Center

On Thursday, October 5, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted an exclusive briefing with Mr. Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo, President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Atlantic Council Vice President and Africa Center Director Dr. J. Peter Pham welcomed guests and introduced Mr. Nangaa. In his remarks, Mr. […]

Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Sep 26, 2017

The MADCOM future

By Matt Chessen

Emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools will provide propagandists radically enhanced capabilities to manipulate human minds. Human cognition is a complex system, and AI tools are very good at decoding complex systems. Interactions on social media, browsing the Internet, and even grocery shopping provide thousands of data points from which technologists can build psychological profiles on nearly […]

Americas Civil Society

Report

Sep 1, 2017

Agent of Influence: Should Russia’s RT Register as a Foreign Agent?

By Elena Postnikova

The US Congress enacted the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) to ensure that the American people were aware when foreign governments funded media sources; at the time, their concerns focused on the Nazi regime in Germany. Today, this issue has resurfaced with concerns about the Russian propaganda outlet RT (formerly Russia Today). RT […]

Disinformation Economic Sanctions

Report

Jul 14, 2017

Sudan: A strategy for re-engagement

By Mary Carlin Yates with Kelsey Lilley

Despite Sudan’s checkered diplomatic history with the United States, the Trump administration has an opportunity to recalibrate what could be a constructive relationship in a critical part of the world. In determining what a successful US-Sudanese relationship could look like, the administration has an opportunity to both serve US interests in Sudan and beyond and […]

Africa Civil Society

Event Recap

May 18, 2017

Roundtable with Angolan defense minister

By Africa Center

On Thursday, May 18, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted a roundtable discussion with H.E. João Lourenço, Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Angola.  Lourenço traveled to Washington this week on behalf of President José Eduardo dos Santos to sign a historic Memorandum of Understanding with the United States, represented by US Secretary […]

Africa Angola

FutureSource

May 17, 2017

Data Firms React to Iranian Presidential Showdown

By Brent M. Eastwood

This blog post is part of a series analyzing the newest forms of data forecasting. The Iranian presidential election has leapt into the headlines as two candidates feverishly make their final arguments to voters. President Hassan Rouhani and conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi have burst into the lead after two other hopefuls dropped out of the […]

Elections Iran

FutureSource

May 8, 2017

Data Firms Weigh In On South Korean Presidential Race During Polling Blackout

By Brent M. Eastwood

This blog post is part of a series analyzing the newest forms of data forecasting. The South Korean presidential election scheduled for tomorrow has been fraught with anxiety as voters remain divided over the direction of the country’s political future. The aftermath of a presidential impeachment has placed heightened scrutiny over the presidential race. North […]

Elections Korea
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Henrique Arevalo

Visiting Fellow

Freedom and Prosperity Center

Elections Latin America

Fellow

Ethel Rudnitzki

Nonresident Journalist Fellow

Global China Hub

Brazil China

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Dean Jackson

Nonresident Fellow

Digital Policy Elections

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Leslie Shedd

Nonresident Fellow

Eurasia Center

Eastern Europe Elections

Staff

Nika Aleksejeva

Resident Fellow, Baltics

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Belarus Disinformation

Fellow

Lukas Andriukaitis

Nonresident Fellow

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Disinformation Eastern Europe
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