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DESCRIPTION:In the age of globalization\, information was celebrated as the
  new connective tissue of humanity — a medium that would dissolve border
 s\, spread democracy\, and accelerate global integration. Yet in the post-
 globalization era\, the same technological and communicative networks have
  become weapons of fragmentation. This paper examines Russian state-sponso
 red disinformation as a historical and contemporary force that thrives pre
 cisely because of globalization’s infrastructures while working to disma
 ntle its ideological foundations.\n\nDrawing from Cold War propaganda mode
 ls and Soviet active measures\, the paper situates modern Russian disinfor
 mation campaigns within a longer genealogy of transnational influence oper
 ations. It argues that Russia’s strategy of “global anti-globalism” 
 depends on exploiting open information systems — Western social media\, 
 global news networks\, and diasporic media ecosystems — to undermine tru
 st\, democratic institutions\, and collective truth. By tracing case studi
 es from the European Union\, the Balkans\, and North America\, the analysi
 s reveals how disinformation now functions as a post-global instrument of 
 power: borderless in method\, isolationist in message.\n\nThe paper conclu
 des by exploring how this paradoxical phenomenon — global connectivity s
 erving anti-globalist ends — challenges both historians and educators to
  rethink narratives of globalization itself. In a world of “closed borde
 rs and open networks\,” world history must confront the new epistemologi
 cal crisis of trust that defines our shared future.
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LOCATION:Room 302 (Seats 48)
SUMMARY:Propaganda without Borders: Russian Disinformation and the End of G
 lobal Trust - Chris Kostov
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/MN7QRA/
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