Overview
- Provides an in-depth study of disinformation in the particularly sensitive and important region of the Baltics
- Documents the Baltics' experience in countering disinformation while building a media landscape supportive of democracy
- Brings together an impressive array of local and international experts on the topic
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication (PIPC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Weight of History
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Front Matter
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The Weight of Ethnicity
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Front Matter
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The Digital Challenges
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Front Matter
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Epilogue
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Reviews
“Russia’s malign influence in Europe isn’t only visible in the military forces it has repeatedly sent across its neighbors borders. It is also evident in the information arena. This book shows how Russia has subverted media outlets, spreads disinformation, and promotes the Kremlin’s geopolitical interests. This book is crucial for understanding contemporary information warfare, the threat Russia poses, and how the Baltic states are responding.” (Chris Miller, Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA)
“This timely volume explores how information warfare in the Baltic states could be a precursor to armed conflict. It shows how Russian disinformation targets different Baltic media markets and tests the effectiveness that various organizations, including the ‘elves’ of Debunk EU, state broadcasters in Russian, and the information warfare experts at NATO have used to blunt its impact. Required reading for understanding the information ‘battle space’ in Europe.” (Mitchell A. Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
“This book is an exceptionally timely collection of analyses from journalists, academics, military and media experts, all steeped in Russia’s asymmetric information war. While focused on Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Chakars and Ekmanis offer a historical framework that helps us understand nearly a century of first Soviet, then Russian activity manipulating information. The book also provides a valuable context for the current strife in Ukraine, with an approach that reminds us that while the stakes are as high as they’ve ever been with Russia and the Kremlin's disinformation campaigns, what is happening now is nothing new. It’s just far more sophisticated and complex. The experience of the Baltics shows us how sharply those campaigns have evolved, and how really no country on earth is immune.” (Marco Werman, Journalist and Host of public radio's TheWorld)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Janis Chakars is Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at Neumann University, USA.
Indra Ekmanis is Baltic Sea Fellow and Editor of the Baltic Initiative at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Information Wars in the Baltic States
Book Subtitle: Russia’s Long Shadow
Editors: Janis Chakars, Indra Ekmanis
Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99987-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99986-5Published: 28 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99989-6Published: 29 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99987-2Published: 26 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2945-6118
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6126
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 311