Rannsóknasetur um smáríki, Rannsóknasetur um norðurslóðir og Höfði friðarsetur Reykjavíkurborgar og Háskóla Íslands starfa innan vébanda Alþjóðamálastofnunar.
Alþjóðamálastofnun beitir sér fyrir auknu samstarfi milli fræðimanna, atvinnulífs og opinberra aðila á sviði alþjóðamála og gengst fyrir ráðstefnum, umræðufundum og fyrirlestrum um efni sem tengjast starfssviði stofnunarinnar. Stofnunin er vettvangur fyrir fræðileg alþjóðasamskipti og þverfagleg þjónustuverkefni fyrir atvinnulíf, fyrirtæki og stofnanir.
What is the EU’s vision of democracy in the era of post-truth politics? How is it fighting against the dangers of disinformation and political polarisation? And how can it balance regulating online content and upholding democratic values?
This TEPSA Animated Explainer focuses on the EU’s strategy to counter the effects …
The rise of large-language models (LLMs) has been a pivotal moment in human history. But what are the implications of these technologies for liberal democracies? And how will they impact democratic deliberation in the future? This TEPSA Animated Explainer focuses on the ways in which technological developments have shaped political …
Today, we explore how the EU's emerging FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) framework shifts the focus from truthfulness to intent in combating foreign influence, raising critical questions about transparency, bias, and the limits of democratic defense.
Host: Lucas Proto, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Guest Editor: Jan Daniel, Senior Researcher, …
Project: RECLAIM
Authors: Martin Moland, Jacopo Custodi, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou
A large literature investigates what shapes people’s people’s perceptions of fake news. However, much of this literature has concerned itself with social media, ignoring the legacy media that still play an integral part in many people’s news diets. …
Project: RECLAIM
Authors: Ondřej Ditrych, Jakub Eberle, Linda Monsees and Petr Kratochvil
This report returns to the recent history of the covid pandemic, rising populism and foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) by Russia and China to explore how the crisis it produced shaped the contestation between strategic disinformation campaigns …
Political polarisation is driven by feelings over facts. This is usually the main narrative. But what if this was not the whole story? What if polarisation was caused by more than just emotions?
This Animated Explainer focuses on the causes of political polarisation and explores the role of re-description as …
Migration touches on deeply emotional, symbolic, and identity-driven issues. That makes it uniquely vulnerable to post-truth tactics, where fear and misperception override facts and evidence. This episode of Post-Truth Be Told unpacks how disinformation hijacks the migration debate—and who gains from it.
Guest editor: Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Assistant Professor Jagellonian University …
Project: RECLAIM
Author: Maximilian Conrad
This discussion paper outlines the RECLAIM project’s ideal-typical understanding of the post-truth condition. Such an ideal-typical understanding is necessary as a heuristic device for the empirical analysis of the various phenomena that – collectively and through their interplay – constitute the post-truth phenomenon. Moreover, an …