Policy Reports

Policy Report

Financing Agenda 2030: Are donors missing the mark on the Sustainable Development Goals?

Bryan Burgess, John Custer, Samantha Custer

2023-09-20

Policy Report

Harboring Global Ambitions: China's Ports Footprint and Implications for Future Overseas Naval Bases

Alex Wooley, Sheng Zhang, Rory Fedorochko, Sarina Patterson

2023-07-25

Policy Report

In the Kremlin’s Shadow: Civic Space and Russian Influence in Europe and Eurasia

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski, Kelsey Marshall, and Vera Choo

2023-05-22

Policy Report

Innovators and Emulators: China and Russia’s Compounding Influence on Digital Censorship

Catherine Andrzejewski, Ana Horigoshi, Abigail I. Maher, and Jonathan A. Solis

2023-05-11

Policy Report

Standing Firm? Measuring Resilience to Malign Foreign Influence in European & Eurasian Media

Vera Choo, Jonathan Solis

2023-05-09

Policy Report

Albania: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Armenia: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Azerbaijan: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Georgia: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Kazakhstan: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Kyrgyzstan: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

North Macedonia: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Montenegro: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Serbia: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Tajikistan: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Turkmenistan: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Uzbekistan: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Kosovo: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Occupied territories: Measuring civic space risk, resilience, and Russian influence

Emily Dumont and Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-26

Policy Report

Belarus: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-11

Policy Report

Moldova: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-04-11

Policy Report

Ukraine: Measuring Civic Space Risk, Resilience, and Russian Influence in the Lead-Up to War

Samantha Custer, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Lincoln Zaleski

2023-03-21

Policy Report

Report Chapter: "Responding to Global South views on development priorities, progress and partner performance"

OECD Development

Samantha Custer, Ana Horigoshi, Kelsey Marshall

2023-02-14

Policy Report

(Re)investing in Our Reputational Security: Alternative Models and Options Strengthen U.S. Strategic Communications

Samantha Custer

2022-11-30

Policy Report

A Reliable Friend and Strategic Partner in the Indo-Pacific Region: Japan’s Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy

Nancy Snow

2022-11-29

Policy Report

Autocratic Approaches to Information Manipulation: A Comparative Case Study

Jessica Brandt

2022-11-28

Policy Report

China-Russia Strategic Communications: Evolving Visions and Practices

Maria Repnikova

2022-11-27

Policy Report

Winning the Narrative: How China and Russia Wield Strategic Communications to Advance Their Goals

Samantha Custer, Austin Baehr, Bryan Burgess, Emily Dumont, Divya Mathew, Amber Hutchinson

2022-11-26

Policy Report

Public Diplomacy and the Road to Reputational Security: Analogue Lessons from US History for a Digital Age

Nicholas J. Cull

2022-11-25

Policy Report

Assessing U.S. Historical Strategic Communications: Priorities, Practices, and Lessons from the Cold War through the Present Day

Samantha Custer, Bryan Burgess, Austin Baehr, Emily Dumont

2022-11-24

Policy Report

Reputational Security: The Imperative to Reinvest in America’s Strategic Communications Capabilities (Complete Volume)

Samantha Custer, Bryan Burgess, Austin Baehr, Emily Dumont, Nicholas J. Cull, Divya Mathew, Amber Hutchinson, Maria Repnikova, Jessica Brandt, Nancy Snow

2022-11-20

Policy Report

Delivering the Belt and Road: Decoding the supply of and demand for Chinese overseas development projects

Ana Horigoshi, Samantha Custer, Bryan Burgess, Kelsey Marshall, Vera Choo, Katie Andrzejewski, and Emily Dumont

2022-10-14

Policy Report

Aid Reimagined: How can foreign assistance support locally-led development?

Samantha Custer, Ana Horigoshi, Amber Hutchinson, Vera Choo, Kelsey Marshall

2022-10-06

Policy Report

Corridors of Power: How Beijing uses economic, social, and network ties to exert influence along the Silk Road

Samantha Custer, Justin Schon, Ana Horigoshi, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Vera Choo, Amber Hutchinson, Austin Baehr, Kelsey Marshall

2021-12-13

Policy Report

Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a new global dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects

Ammar A. Malik, Bradley Parks, Brooke Russell, Joyce Jiahui Lin, Katherine Walsh, Kyra Solomon, Sheng Zhang, Thai-Binh Elston, Seth Goodman

2021-09-29

Policy Report

Listening to Leaders 2021: A report card for development partners in an era of contested cooperation

Samantha Custer, Tanya Sethi, Rodney Knight, Amber Hutchinson, Vera Choo, Mengfan Cheng

2021-06-30

Policy Report

How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments

Anna Gelpern, Sebastian Horn, Scott Morris, Brad Parks, Christoph Trebesch

2021-03-31

Policy Report

Development Cooperation from a Partner Perspective: How can Germany and other donors perform better in the eyes of their partner countries?

DEval — German Institute for Development Evaluation

Kerstin Guffler, Ani Harutyunyan, Matthew DiLorenzo, Tanya Sethi, Mirko Eppler, Marie-Sophie Heinelt

2021-01-14

Policy Report

Kuwekeza Katika Maisha ya Watu wa Kenya

Mihir Prakash, Samantha Custer, Bryan Burgess, Divya Mathew, Mengfan Cheng, Rodney Knight

2020-07-30

Policy Report

Investing in Kenya's People: Valuing the Benefits of the U.S.-Kenya Relationship

Mihir Prakash, Samantha Custer, Bryan Burgess, Divya Mathew, Mengfan Cheng, Rodney Knight

2020-06-17

Policy Report

Silk Road Diplomacy: Deconstructing Beijing's toolkit to influence South and Central Asia

Samantha Custer, Tanya Sethi, Jonathan A. Solis, Joyce Jiahui Lin, Siddhartha Ghose, Anubhav Gupta, Rodney Knight, Austin Baehr

2019-12-10

Policy Report

Influencing the Narrative: How the Chinese government mobilizes students and media to burnish its image

Samantha Custer, Mihir Prakash, Jonathan A. Solis, Rodney Knight, Joyce Jiahui Lin

2019-12-09

Policy Report

Counting on Statistics: How can national statistical offices and donors increase use?

Tanya Sethi, Mihir Prakash

2018-10-21

Policy Report

Ties That Bind: Quantifying China's public diplomacy and its "good neighbor" effect

Samantha Custer, Brooke Russell, Matthew DiLorenzo, Mengfan Cheng, Siddhartha Ghose, Jacob Sims, Jennifer Turner, Harsh Desai

2018-06-27

Policy Report

Listening to Leaders 2018: Is development cooperation tuned-in or tone-deaf?

Samantha Custer, Matthew DiLorenzo, Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Ani Harutyunyan

2018-05-31

Policy Report

Toward data-driven education systems: Insights into using information to measure results and manage change

Samantha Custer, Elizabeth M. King, Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Lindsay Read, Tanya Sethi

2018-02-20

Policy Report

Decoding Data Use: How do leaders source data and use it to accelerate development?

Takaaki Masaki, Samantha Custer, Agustina Eskenazi, Alena Stern, Rebecca Latourell

2017-11-28

Policy Report

Realizing Agenda 2030: Will donor dollars and country priorities align with global goals?

Tanya Sethi, Samantha Custer, Jennifer Turner, Jacob Sims, Matthew DiLorenzo, Rebecca Latourell

2017-11-06

Policy Report

Beyond the Tyranny of Averages: Development Progress from the Bottom Up

Samantha Custer, Matthew DiLorenzo, Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Jessica Wells

2017-09-28

Policy Report

Avoiding Data Graveyards: Insights from Data Producers & Users in Three Countries

Samantha Custer and Tanya Sethi, Eds.

2017-04-01

Policy Report

In the Eye of the Beholder: When is governance data "good enough"?

Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Samantha Custer

2016-12-01

Policy Report

Danish Development Cooperation from a Partner Perspective

Bradley Parks, Samantha Custer, Takaaki Masaki, Tanya Sethi, Rebecca Latourell

2016-09-01

Policy Report

German Aid from a Partner Perspective

Bradley C. Parks, Takaaki Masaki, Jörg Faust, Stefan Leiderer

2016-08-01

Policy Report

From Pork to Performance: Open Government and Program Performance Tracking in the Philippines

Samantha Custer, Hanif Rahemtulla, Kai Kaiser

2016-07-01

Policy Report

Governance Data: Who Uses It and Why?

Samantha Custer, Zachary Rice, Takaaki Masaki, Rebecca Latourell, Bradley Parks

2016-03-01

Policy Report

Listening to Leaders: Which Development Partners Do They Prefer and Why?

Samantha Custer, Zachary Rice, Takaaki Masaki, Rebecca Latourell, Bradley Parks

2015-10-01

Policy Report

The Marketplace of Ideas for Policy Change: Who do developing world leaders listen to and why?

Bradley Parks, Zachary Rice, Samantha Custer

2015-04-01

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