March 06, 2020
The Rise of Digital Dictators, With Andrea Kendall-Taylor
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the increasing use of technology by authoritarian regimes. Kendall-Taylor’s article “The Digital Dictators: How Technology Strengthens Autocracy,” coauthored with Erica Frantz and Joseph Wright, can be found in the March/April 2020 issue of Foreign Affairs.
Listen to the full conversation on The President's Inbox, a podcast from the Council on Foreign Relations:
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