--- title: Peter Pomerantsev | TIME description: Pomerantsev is a co-founder of The Reckoning Project and senior fellow at SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler and This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality. canonical: https://time.com/author/peter-pomerantsev/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/peter-pomerantsev/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Peter Pomerantsev ## Peter Pomerantsev Pomerantsev is a co-founder of [The Reckoning Project](https://www.thereckoningproject.com/) and senior fellow at SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of [_How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler_](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/peter-pomerantsev/how-to-win-an-information-war/9781541774728/?lens=publicaffairs) and [_This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541762118/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1541762118&linkId=8de6b92b889b94ef1c7327960b053098). ## Peter Pomerantsev *  Aug 14, 2025 ### [The Real Danger of the Trump-Putin Summit](https://time.com/7309587/trump-putin-alaska-summit-ukraine-war/) It's crucial that Russia's occupation of eastern Ukraine is never normalized. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 20, 2024 ### [Russia's War Against Evangelicals](https://time.com/6969273/russias-war-against-evangelicals/) Putin's Russia has led an at times brutal campaign against evangelicals inside Russia and in the occ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 6, 2024 ### [Do Russians Believe Putin's Propaganda?](https://time.com/6964053/russian-putin-propaganda/) After the mall terrorist attack, Putin made bogus claims. Peter Pomeransev on how we need to rethink... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 18, 2024 ### [How to Defeat Nazi Propaganda](https://time.com/6957547/sefton-delmer-world-war-two-propaganda/) The strange tale of a fake Nazi radio station that helped win the war. And what it can teach us abou... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 26, 2024 ### [Ukraine Is a War About America's Power](https://time.com/6817355/fate-of-ukraine-war-america-power/) What kind of strength does America want to show the world? To let Ukraine be destroyed or to protect... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 29, 2023 ### [Prigozhin Is Dead. Russian Gangster Culture Lives On](https://time.com/6309039/prigozhin-death-russian-prison-culture/) Prigozhin was both a model for Russian criminals and a manifestation of a fundamental truth about Ru... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 21, 2022 ### [Autocrats Are Weaponizing Globalization. Ukraine Is Where They Must Be Stopped](https://time.com/6242912/ukraine-war-globalized-autocrats/) To secure Ukraine’s sovereignty—and our own—we need to break the power of networked authoritarians [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 4, 2022 ### [Russia Wants to Lock Ukraine Back in the Soviet Cellar](https://time.com/6219200/what-russia-wants-ukraine/) Russia wants to imprison a whole country, to trap and confine Ukraine in Putin's cellar, both metaph... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 6, 2022 ### [Ukraine Is Our Past and Our Future](https://time.com/6164810/ukraine-is-our-past-and-our-future/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 4, 2022 ### [What Putin’s Nazi Talk Reveals About His Plans for Ukraine](https://time.com/6154853/putins-nazi-talk-reveals-plans-for-ukraine/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 25, 2022 ### [Putin's Attack on Ukraine Is an Attempt to Delay His Own Inevitable Demise](https://time.com/6151377/putin-ukraine-attack-dictator/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 22, 2022 ### [The West Doesn't Understand Putin's Ukraine Obsession](https://time.com/6140996/putin-ukraine-threats/) Putin's obsessive threats to Ukraine can't only be understood on geopolitical terms, and should shap... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 9, 2019 ### [We Need to Stop Thinking of Conflict With Russia as an 'Information War'](https://time.com/5722805/rethink-information-war-russia/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/peter-pomerantsev/","name":"Peter Pomerantsev"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/peter-pomerantsev/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/peter-pomerantsev/"},"name":"Peter Pomerantsev","jobTitle":"Contributor","description":"Pomerantsev is a co-founder of The Reckoning Project and senior fellow at SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. 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