Supervisors: Dr Allan Sikk and Dr Peter Duncan
Email: k.potapova.12@ucl.ac.uk
Working title of thesis: Popular geopolitics of propaganda: The Russian media and geopolitical imagination in Estonia
Present status & research: Kristina is a PhD Candidate at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê SSEES and the recipient of Kristjan Jaak Scholarship (4 year fully funded scholarship). She specializes in geopolitics and media with a focus on geopolitical imagination and Russian media influence abroad as well as strategic communications and disinformation.
°°ù¾±²õ³Ù¾±²Ô²¹â€™s thesis studies the effect of geopolitical discourses in the media on popular perceptions of geopolitics, particularly how contradictory geopolitical discourses shape the Estonian Russian-speaking minority’s geopolitical imagination, understandings about international politics.
Research interests:
- Geopolitics
- Media
- Propaganda & disinformation
- Russian politics
- International security and defence