Harvard Kennedy School

September 6, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Imperialism returns to Africa

The new colonialists are Chinese, Russian, and Islamist

January 18, 2023 | Dr. Georgianna Shea |

How A Digital Footprint Provides A Criminal Foothold

FDD’s TCIL conducted a pilot demonstrating the similarities between offensive cyber operations and cyber-enabled influence operations.

August 24, 2022 | |

Letter on Russia’s illegal seizure and mistreatment of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant

April 12, 2022 | Annie Fixler, Graham Kennis

Justice Department Disrupts Russian Malware With Help from Private Sector

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Wednesday it had detected and preemptively disabled Russian-installed malware on thousands of network devices in the United States and around the world. The...

November 16, 2021 | Graham Kennis, Laura Bate, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Agile Multilateralism Is Needed to Address Cybercrime Safe Havens

With the Treasury Department’s announcement of sanctions against the cryptocurrency exchange SUEX and the 30-nation summit led by the White House, the past few weeks have served as a reminder that in...

December 15, 2020 | Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer

Retain American Power, Do Not Restrain It

The call for the United States to show “restraint” by withdrawing from foreign entanglements and keeping the focus at home is growing in foreign-policy circles – and not just in the Trump administration....

June 3, 2020 | Christos A. Makridis |

Any Publicity is Good Publicity? Data Breaches and Firm Reputation

August 19, 2019 | Tzvi Kahn |

Politics vs. Protocol: Iran’s Nuclear Archive and the IAEA’s Responsibilities

April 17, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Socialist eras and errors

Accounting for the popularity of Bernie and AOC

May 10, 2017 | Juan C. Zarate

Secondary Sanctions Against Chinese Institutions: Assessing their Utility for Constraining N. Korea

Download the full testimony here.  Chairman S...

March 8, 2016 | |

Olli Heinonen, former IAEA head of Safeguards, Joins FDD as Advisor on Science and Nonproliferation

Olli Heinonen, former head of Safeguards and Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies as Advisor on Science a...

January 21, 2016 | Olli Heinonen |

Beyond Implementation Day: Transparency and Enforcement for the Long Term

FDD Research

December 8, 2015 | Olli Heinonen |

Next Steps in the Implementation of the JCPOA

FDD Research

June 9, 2015 | Aykan Erdemir |

Former Turkish Parliamentarian Joins FDD as Non-Resident Fellow

WASHINGTON — Dr. Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish Parliament from 2011 to 2015, has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident fellow. Based in An...

December 19, 2013 | Orde Kittrie |

Iran Plays Games with the Geneva Deal

Co-authored by Olli Heinonen Nearly a month since the six-month Joint Plan of Action&...

September 20, 2012 | Clifford D. May

Misunderstanding 9/11

Learning the wrong lessons can be costly.

June 7, 2010 |

FDD Releases The Afghanistan-Pakistan Theater: Militant Islam, Security and Stability

Press Release June 7, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 [email protected]   FDD Releases The Afghanistan-Pakistan Theater: Militant Islam,...

April 8, 2010 | |

Petraeus’s Israel Problem

Max Boot is a good historian. On Islam, I often disagree with him, finding in his work the wishful thinking common among Islamic Democracy Project enthusiasts. Still, he is thoughtful and civil,...

February 20, 2010 |

A Defense of Rashad Hussain

As Fox News notes, President Obama's...

September 24, 2009 | World Defense Review

Putting Puntland’s Potential into Play

By Dr. J. Peter Pham In last week's column, I noted that the United States military and intelligence communitie...