How Has France Established Itself as a Champion of the European Fight Against Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI)?
本文以法国为例，研究欧洲民主国家如何应对外国信息操纵与干涉，分析法国从防御性制度建设转向全面进攻性策略的过程，对理解国家角色转变和政策演化有参考价值。
Abstract The article contributes to the emerging scholarly literature on how European democracies respond to foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), whilst focusing on a single case study of France. It asks how France responded to Russian FIMI and why this response has become more forceful and comprehensive over time. Drawing on insights from neoclassical realism and role theory, the article argues that France's comprehensive capacity and institution building can be explained by adaptation to a new national role conception of defender of the liberal international order. The evolution of the French approach to foreign interference is illuminated by the two‐level game model, where international role‐taking is shaped by domestic role support and contestation. Empirically, the article analyses the process of institutionalisation and evolution of French counter‐FIMI policies: from selective and defensive institution‐building to a more comprehensive and offensive approach featuring transnational institutional diffusion.