Gabriella Pickton

Gabriella Pickton is a current Junior Research Fellow at the NATO Association of Canada Centre for Disinformation Studies. From the United States, she relocated to Canada for undergraduate studies at Carleton University’s Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. She is now on studying abroad in Tbilisi, Georgia for her final year. Currently a Research Assistant at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, she has previously interned at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies and USAID Georgia’s Local Governance Program. Within the scope of her work at NAOC, her research interests focus on: the intersections of national security; information warfare; and Russia-NATO strategic competition.

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“Democracy Is Never A Guarantee:” Georgia’s Young Protesters on the Frontlines Against Russian Disinformation

In October 2024, the Black Sea state of Georgia held a heavily disputed parliamentary election. Foreign policy dominated pre-election discourse among parties. For both the current ruling party and the various parties making up the opposition, the future of relations with the European Union (EU), NATO, and Russia were at the center of the discussion. Read More…

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“The Global War Party”: Anti-Western Rhetoric in the 2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

This article was originally published as an intern contribution at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. Fear of war has long shaped Georgian domestic politics. Conflict between Tbilisi and Russian-backed separatists in the regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) left the country fragmented following the collapse of the Soviet Union. 2008 saw Read More…