Elections Under Pressure : Understanding Russian Sharp Power Information Influence in the 2024 General Elections of Finland, France, and Ireland
Journal: KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Year: 2026

With recent decades’ rapid globalisation and technological advancements, the information environment has developed, and among other things, brought with it new possibilities of foreign interference, and the dissemination of disinformation and propaganda. Recent examples in Romania (Rainsford, 2024) and Taiwan (Huang, 2025), shows how foreign actors have tried to exploit characteristics of the modern information environment to interfere with democratic elections. Building an analytical framework