Here is more about the effort from GMF:
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan, transatlantic initiative housed at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), will develop comprehensive strategies to defend against, deter, and raise the costs on Russian and other state actors’ efforts to undermine democracy and democratic institutions. The Alliance will work to publicly document and expose Vladimir Putin’s ongoing efforts to subvert democracy in the United States and Europe.
The Alliance will forge partnerships across the Atlantic with political leaders, policymakers, like-minded institutions, and technical experts to address the urgent need to secure our democracies, create a common understanding of the techniques used to undermine democracies, and share lessons learned about effective defensive and deterrent strategies. Enlisting leading transatlantic experts on cyber security, disinformation, illicit finance, Russian influence operations, and other relevant areas, the Alliance will develop strategies for making democracies more resilient against future meddling and better able to counter Russian efforts to use the subversion of democracy as a weapon. The Alliance will bring together experts across these areas and work with the private sector and civil society to develop and employ strategies to strengthen and secure our democracies.
Finally, it will analyze emerging technological and societal trends to identify areas of vulnerability to the eventual challenge from other state and nongovernmental actors who may attempt to replicate these tactics. By analyzing what Russia is doing today, the project will develop a shared playbook with recommendations for democratic leaders about how democracy can be better safeguarded tomorrow.
GMF says that the Alliance for Securing Democracy is currently funded by a group of American private individuals and small family foundations from across the political spectrum, but it does not list any specific funding sources.
The Advisory Council is an all-star team that includes:
- Michael Chertoff
- Toomas Ilves
- David Kramer
- Bill Kristol
- Michael Morell
- Michael McFaul
- Mike Rogers
- Kori Schake
- Julie Smith
- Jim Stavridis
- Jake Sullivan
- Nicole Wong
Laura Rosenberger is the director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy as well as a senior fellow at GMF. Before joining the think tank she was a foreign policy advisor for Hillary for America. Other staffers include Jamie Fly, David Salvo, Bret Schafer, and Brittany Beaulieu.
The Alliance for Security Democracy's blog can be found here. Its "Disinformation Dashboards" can be found here.
Advisory Council members recently wrote a piece for The Washington Post entitled "Russian Cyberattacks Never Stopped," in which they cite the work of Alliance for Securing Democracy.
