The Weaponization ofPostmodernism:Russia’s New War with Europe. LEQS Paper No. 146/2019July 2019
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2019

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 advoca