David Shimer

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David Shimer
Education Yale University (BA, MA)
Magdalen College, Oxford (DPhil)
Notable workRigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference (2020)

David Shimer is an American historian and foreign policy analyst. He is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and an Associate Fellow at Yale University. [1]

Shimer graduated from Yale University with bachelor's and master's degrees in history and was a Marshall Scholar and a Truman Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he received his doctorate in international relations. [2] [3] [4]

Works

Shimer has reported for The New York Times from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. [5] [6] [7] [8]

In June 2020, Shimer published the book Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference (Knopf), a global history of foreign election interference. [9]

The New York Times, in its review of Rigged, said the book was "extraordinary and gripping" and had "the insight of a superb work of history." [10] Rigged was also positively reviewed by NPR, The Washington Post , and The Guardian, as well as by Anne Applebaum, William Joseph Burns, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Timothy Snyder, and Jake Sullivan. [11] [12] [13]

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References

  1. "David Shimer - Global Fellow". www.wilsoncenter.org.
  2. "David Shimer - Marshall Scholarships". www.marshallscholarship.org. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  3. "David Shimer - Global Fellow". www.wilsoncenter.org.
  4. "David Shimer". www.justsecurity.org.
  5. Shimer, David (28 June 2017). "Germany Encounters Surge in Crime by the Far Right". The New York Times.
  6. Shimer, David (31 December 2018). "With Drone Deliveries on the Horizon, Europe Moves to Set Ground Rules". The New York Times.
  7. Shimer, David (26 December 2018). "Fake Islands Bring a Dutch Lake Back to Life". The New York Times.
  8. Shimer, David (31 October 2018). "Oxford Roiled by Invitation to Far-Right German Politician". The New York Times.
  9. "Nonfiction Book Review: Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  10. Naftali, Timothy (30 June 2020). "How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections". The New York Times.
  11. "In 'Rigged,' A Comprehensive Account Of Decades Of Election Interference". www.npr.org.
  12. Harding, Luke (29 June 2020). "Rigged: America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference by David Shimer - review". The Guardian.
  13. "Rigged by David Shimer". www.penguinrandomhouse.com.