Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303429 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
LEQS Paper No. 146
Publisher: 
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), European Institute, London
Abstract: 
The term 'information war' (IW) first came to public consciousness following the bizarre set of events surrounding Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Since then, despite significant popular and academic interest in the topic, the nature of its deployment and the set of motivations behind it remain poorly understood. This paper seeks to address this. In it I argue that the Russian IW programme is best understood as an attempt to weaponize postmodernism. By this I intend not the aggressive advocacy of a set of intellectual postulates, but the promotion of a psychological weariness or scepticism that resembles what we might call the postmodern condition. Its aim, I argue, is to aid in the establishment of a multipolar international order, one that insulates the Putin regime against the spread of ideas disruptive to its rule at home.
Subjects: 
Russia
Putin
European Union
information warfare
RT intergovernmentalism
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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