East Centre Research Seminar

We are delighted to welcome our former Phd-student, Dr Elliot Short (Project Director of the Open Information Partnership) for a talk on 'The Kremlin's information war against Europe and democracy'.

Alongside its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin is waging an information war against Europe and democracy. It employs a range of tactics and techniques to incite conflict, rupture alliances, and undermine democratic processes – all in service of its expansionist agenda. In this presentation, Elliot will shine a light on this shadowy world, drawing on examples from across Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to explain how the Kremlin and its allies conduct these operations, before concluding with some thoughts on the future of the sector. 

Dr Elliot Short is the Project Director of the Open Information Partnership, an international programme designed to counter disinformation and information operations in Eastern Europe. He is also a published historian (Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bloomsbury, 2021) with expertise spanning armed conflict, statebuilding, and the Western Balkans. He graduated with a PhD in Modern History from the University of East Anglia in 2019, where he also received his MA in 2014 and BA in 2012.