Justin S. Casey is a PhD Candidate at Georgetown University and incoming Predoctoral Fellow at the George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies. They are the co-author of “Ideological Topography in World Politics” in International Studies Quarterly (with Lucas Dolan) and “The Vexing Rise of the Transnational Right” in Foreign Affairs (with Daniel Nexon). Their dissertation explores how and why democracies employ propaganda in peacetime despite risks, opaque effectiveness, and dissonance with liberal norms.