Securitizing Russian disinformation? An argumentative discourse analysis of MEPs speeches in European Parliament debates (2014–2024)
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2025

This thesis examines how the European Parliament (EP) has discursively framed Russian disinformation between 2014 and 2024 and whether such framings amount to a process of collective securitization. While the European Union (EU) has already enacted extraordinary measures—such as the 2022 ban on Russia Today and Sputnik—that reflect the securitization of disinformation at the policy level, less attention has been paid to the argumentative dynamics that shaped these outcomes. To address this gap,