Storying Strategies in Russian Information Warfare Against Sweden: The Post-Ukraine War Narratives
Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2025

Inter-state warfare increasingly exploits the reach and ubiquity of information technology, digital communications, and social media, employing strategies of information warfare (IW) capable of undermining democratic systems and causing destabilization through phenomena such as polarization. This paper aims to investigate the IW strategies used by the Russian state against Sweden in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. To do so, it employs an interpretivist narrative analysis, consi