The round table discussion “Region vulnerabilities and implications for new Czech security and foreign policy” took place in Prague on 9 September 2021. The event’s participants included European experts in the field of disinformation studies, local diplomatic missions, and Czech decision makers. The findings of the Disinformation Resilience Index led by the EAST Center and contributed by the Association for International Affairs, as well the Project HADES led by GLOBSEC, with the Prague Security Studies Institute as a contributing institution, were presented.
The discussion focused on the lessons for the Czech effort to build up resilience to external and internal shocks. The debate offered a comparative perspective as well as individual examples of best practices that has been identified in the Central and Eastern European region.
Disinformation Resilience Index project, supported by the Visegrad Fund and the GMF, aims at exposing vulnerabilities to external information operations and analyses the level of preparedness of the Visegrad states and Eastern Partnership countries to handle them. Check the full Disinformation Resilience Index 2021 report here.
The HADES project focuses on the resilience of the countries of Central Europe and the Balkans to the influence of authoritarian states.
