Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Grasping Sharp Power. 1. The authoritarian assault on knowledge / Glenn Tiffert
  • 2. How autocrats undermine media freedom / Edward Lucas
  • 3. How Beijing runs the show in Hollywood / Aynne Kokas
  • 4. The Kremlin playbook for Latin America / Ruslan Stefanov and Martin Vladimirov
  • 5. China's tech-enhanced authoritarianism / Samantha Hoffman
  • 6. China's pandemic power play / Nadège Rolland
  • Part two: Blunting sharp power's edge
  • 7. Transparency wins in Europe / Martin Hála
  • 8. Taiwan's democracy under fire / Ketty W. Chen
  • 9. How Australia's civil society led the way / John Fitzgerald
  • 10. Countering Beijing's media manipulation / Sarah Cook
  • 11. Conclusion: sharp power and the threat to democracy / Christopher Walker.