Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479852368 ISBN 13: 9781479852369

Publisher: NYU Press, 2026

Synopsis

The nation's top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars propose solutions for democracy's future

In recent years, the sight of gun-wielding citizens patrolling ballot boxes and voting sites has become increasingly familiar. Major news corporations parroting false claims of election fraud, ballot stuffing, and faulty voting systems is the new normal. In an era of global anti-democratic movements, the sanctity of democratic electoral processes has become a major national security concern, and the need to protect elections from foreign interference, disinformation, voter intimidation, and the danger of election results being overturned, are now front and center. How did we get here? And more importantly, how will this affect the future of democracy?

Award-winning authors Julian E. Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg bring together the nation’s top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars to examine how the lack of stability and integrity of the electoral process has become a threat to national security. Through historical and social scientific analysis, contributors outline how these problems have emerged and propose concrete solutions to move us into a period of greater stability. At once urgent and comprehensive, Our Nation at Risk is the preeminent book on election security and a must read for anyone invested in the fight for democracy.

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About the Authors

Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is the award-winning author and editor of 25 books including The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society and Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party.

Karen J. Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. She is the author and editor of many books including Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump, and our Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue.

Edition details

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1479852368
• ISBN 13: 9781479852369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386
• Editor: Zelizer Julian E., Greenberg Karen J.