Digital Democracy in a Divided Global Landscape

Feldstein's edited collection addresses the fracturing of the global information space along geopolitical lines — the emergence of competing digital spheres shaped by the US-China rivalry, the implications for democratic governance, and the unevenness of democratic resilience across regions. The collection includes a notable contribution from Akin Unver on FIMI and transatlantic information defence, which situates European counter-FIMI efforts within the broader context of US-European divergence on platform regulation and information policy.

The collection is valuable precisely because it resists the temptation to treat 'digital democracy' as a unified global project facing a common threat. The contributors document how the information environment looks fundamentally different depending on where you sit — and how counter-disinformation strategies that make sense in Brussels or Washington may be irrelevant or counterproductive elsewhere. For practitioners working across different regional contexts, this comparative perspective is essential.