Russia’s hybrid interference campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: a challenge against trust in liberal democracies?

Kondratov, Eugene and Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth ORCID: 0000-0003-1202-5099 (2022) Russia’s hybrid interference campaigns in France, Germany and the UK: a challenge against trust in liberal democracies? Geopolitics. ISSN 1465-0045

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This article examines the Russian government’s use of the cyber and information domains as arenas to challenge liberal democracies. Previous studies have examined the technical or military-strategic aspects of Russian cyber activity or (dis)information. This article builds on these efforts and extends the scope of analysis to examine the socio-political challenges of Russian ‘hybrid interference’ for liberal Western democracies such as France, Germany and the UK. Our case studies highlight Russia’s growing use of cyber operations combined with (dis)information to foment or exacerbate tensions between government and society and/or among different societal groups. Our findings suggest that while Russia utilises hybrid interference to create or augment inter-societal turbulence in the short-term, the longer-term effect might serve to erode horizontal and vertical trust in such societies.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fgeo20
Additional Information:	© 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Divisions:	International Relations
Subjects:	J Political Science J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2022 12:24
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2024 00:12
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/117426

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