Can China and America Handle Being Ordinary?

Nancy Qian

19.10.26

A period of sustained economic success taught Americans and Chinese alike that rapid growth was inevitable, leaving their children to learn the hard way that it was not. Whereas Americans have spent decades wrestling with the psychology of interrupted ascent, China is...

Foreign influences, domestic megaphones

Andrea Perišić

05.08.26

Behind disinformation and “fake news” in Montenegro often lies a deeper problem: anonymous targeting campaigns taken up by domestic politicians, media outlets, and social networks. While Europe recognizes FIMI as a threat to democracy, Montenegrin institutions...

When everyone posts the same thing: A signal of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

Dragan Sekulovski

04.03.26

FIMI usually does not rely on a single lie, but on a combination of the posting frequency and timing, the emotion in the content, repetition and masking of the source....

`Speak Truth Unto Power`

06.10.15

Charles Garrett, British Ambassador to Macedonia The UK Civil Service doesn’t have an official motto – but if it did, it would almost certainly be: “speak truth unto power”. It’s a maxim that’s in the blood of good civil servants,...