December 2020’s European Democracy Action Plan (EDAP) sets out a number of important principles for the future of EU disinformation policy. EDAP is a wide-ranging document charting an ambitious course far beyond the precedent set by the 2018 Action Plan on Disinformation. However, much of the details still need to be worked out. In this talk, Pamment – who prepared a series of non-papers in support of EDAP and is an adviser to Commissioner Jourova – will discuss current and future challenges in defining and implementing EDAP.

James Pamment, PhD, is associate professor of Strategic Communication at Lund University and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Prior to joining Carnegie, he was special adviser to the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, and senior analyst at the Centre for Asymmetric Threats Studies (CATS), a governmental think tank at the Swedish National Defense University. He has previously held research positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and Oxford University.

December 2020’s European Democracy Action Plan (EDAP) sets out a number of important principles for the future of EU disinformation policy. EDAP is a wide-ranging document charting an ambitious course far beyond the precedent set by the 2018 Action Plan on Disinformation. However, much of the details still need to be worked out. In this talk, Pamment – who prepared a series of non-papers in support of EDAP and is an adviser to Commissioner Jourova – will discuss current and future challenges in defining and implementing EDAP.

James Pamment, PhD, is associate professor of Strategic Communication at Lund University and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Prior to joining Carnegie, he was special adviser to the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, and senior analyst at the Centre for Asymmetric Threats Studies (CATS), a governmental think tank at the Swedish National Defense University. He has previously held research positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and Oxford University.