07 Dezember 2023

FIIA Briefing Paper: The 2024 elections in Russia, the EU, and the US

By Manuel Müller
Cover of the FIIA Briefing Paper: The 2024 elections in Russia, the EU, and the US: International implications and impacts on the war in Ukraine

2024 will be a global super election year: Among others, presidential and/or parliamentary elections will be held in Russia, the European Union, and the United States. They will carry implications not only for the domestic politics of these three polities but also for the international arena.

While the Russian presidential election lacks any democratic credibility, Vladimir Putin’s confirmation may encourage him to pursue an even more aggressive military policy. However, this would still be a domestic political risk, and Putin’s primary expectation is that Western aid to Ukraine will wane.

The European Parliament elections are expected to result in a surge of far-right parties, but the EU’s decentralized power structures and consensus-based procedures make sudden political changes unlikely. Enlargement policy will be high on the EU’s agenda in the next legislative period.

In the US, the presidential and congressional elections will see a clash between two very different visions for both domestic and foreign policy. The consequences will be drastically different depending on the outcome of the elections.

In a new Briefing Paper for the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Jussi Lassila, Maria Lindén and I analyse what can be expected from these elections – for the countries involved and for global politics at large, in particular for the war in Ukraine.

The complete Briefing Paper can be found here.


Picture: Cover of the FIIA Briefing Paper, based on a photo by IBNER/Daniel Fleig, ImagoImagesStock / Lehtikuva.

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