Expertise
- Cold War
- Democracy
- Global Governance
- History
- Security and Defense
- U.S. Politics
Wilson Center Projects
A Historical Approach to Countering Foreign Electoral Interference and Assessing Russian Foreign Policy
Full Biography
David Shimer is an expert on election security, U.S.-Russian relations, and covert action. He is the author of “Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference" (Knopf, June 2020), a New York Times Editors' Choice book. His reporting and analysis have been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. He has appeared on CNN and MSNBC to discuss the threat of foreign election interference, and he has been interviewed by the New York Times, NPR, and Politico about American and Russian foreign policy. Shimer received his doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his undergraduate and master’s degrees in history from Yale University.
Major Publications
- Rigged: America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference (Knopf, 2020)
- How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections (New York Times, 2020)
- Election Meddling in Russia: When Boris Yeltsin Asked Bill Clinton for Help (Washington Post, 2020)
- How Russia Rigged Democracy (Webcast Event, 2020)
- Protecting U.S. Elections (Webcast Event, 2020)
- Politics and Prose Book Discussion: "Rigged" (Webcast Event, 2020)
- A Cold War Case of Russian Collusion (Foreign Affairs, 2019)
- Smaller Democracies Grapple with the Threat of Russian Interference (The New Yorker, 2018)
- Germany Encounters Surge in Crime by the Far Right (New York Times, 2017)