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Annals Of Psychological Warfare: How To Induce Panic, Ibpp Editor Mar 2010

Annals Of Psychological Warfare: How To Induce Panic, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the phenomenon of panic in a wartime setting because of psychological warfare, as well as in other settings.


Psychological Operations And An Iatrogenic Threat In Iraq, Ibpp Editor Mar 2003

Psychological Operations And An Iatrogenic Threat In Iraq, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a psychological phenomenon that might lead to the backfiring of an attempt at employing psychological operations.


The Other Information Warfare: A Mind Full Of Macedonia, Ibpp Editor Mar 2001

The Other Information Warfare: A Mind Full Of Macedonia, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights ongoing aspects of psychological warfare in Macedonia between government and rebel forces.


'Mein Kampf' And New Trends In Information Warfare, Ibpp Editor Aug 1999

'Mein Kampf' And New Trends In Information Warfare, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores how on-line commercial enterprises may have significant consequences for what people think, feel, and desire and how they act.


Nonexplosive Warfare: Is It New Or Old?, Ibpp Editor Nov 1998

Nonexplosive Warfare: Is It New Or Old?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides a contrary opinion to the analysis of the new United States Secretary of the Navy, Richard Danzig, concerning biological warfare agents and computer-attack variants of information warfare. The opinion is based on the perspective of science and technological change within the context of social, cultural, and political phenomena.


Information Warfare And The Hacktivist, Ibpp Editor Nov 1998

Information Warfare And The Hacktivist, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides comments on the significance of hacktivism.


The Taliban Touch: Is Smashing Tv Sets A Smashing Idea?, Ibpp Editor Jul 1998

The Taliban Touch: Is Smashing Tv Sets A Smashing Idea?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article contains a commentary on a new public policy announced by the Taliban movement in Afghanistan that will proscribe televisions, videocassette recorders, videotapes, and satellite dishes among the people under its control. The commentary focuses on the potential political consequences of this policy based on psychological research on the effects of television.


Managing The Mass Media Through Murder: Primary Prevention In Perception Management, Ibpp Editor Apr 1998

Managing The Mass Media Through Murder: Primary Prevention In Perception Management, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a common and simple approach to managing a political entity's international image.


Trends. Injustice Through Justice Within The Ins And The Fbi: Fertile Territory For Information, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

Trends. Injustice Through Justice Within The Ins And The Fbi: Fertile Territory For Information, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the quest for justice, in which policymakers, legislators, and those who seek to influence them sometimes seek to effect mandatory sequences of adjudicative procedure upon allegations of misbehavior.


The Political Psychology Of Negotiations: The Terrorism Of Terrorists, Ibpp Editor Feb 1998

The Political Psychology Of Negotiations: The Terrorism Of Terrorists, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article illustrates some of the psychological advantages possessed by terrorists who engage in negotiations with nonterrorists.


Information Warfare, China, And South Korea: More Than A Military Concept, Ibpp Editor Jan 1998

Information Warfare, China, And South Korea: More Than A Military Concept, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article emphasizes events suggesting that information warfare is a security concept that transcends military Issues.


"Brainwashing" And The Death Of Jean Pasqualini, Ibpp Editor Oct 1997

"Brainwashing" And The Death Of Jean Pasqualini, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some salient psychological Issues related to the concept of "brainwashing."


Philosophical Issues In Verification Of Weapons Limitation, Reduction, And Nonproliferation Treaties, Ibpp Editor Oct 1997

Philosophical Issues In Verification Of Weapons Limitation, Reduction, And Nonproliferation Treaties, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some of the philosophical Issues that permeate the belief systems of individuals attempting to craft and/or evaluate the verification components of various weapons-related treaties.


Rumor Analysis: Nato, Radiation Weapons, And Gornja Omarska, Ibpp Editor Sep 1997

Rumor Analysis: Nato, Radiation Weapons, And Gornja Omarska, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies factors contributing to the credibility of a rumor transmitted by and among some Bosnian Serbs that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) employed radiation weapons in it's 1995 bombing campaign leading up to the Dayton peace accords.


Political Oracles, Issues, And Candidates: It's In The Stars, Ibpp Editor Jun 1997

Political Oracles, Issues, And Candidates: It's In The Stars, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some parameters in employing media stars to support campaigns for political initiatives.


The New Information And Communication Order: Deja Vu All Over Again?, Ibpp Editor May 1997

The New Information And Communication Order: Deja Vu All Over Again?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article endorses qualified support for a world seminar on international information activities proposed by a number of Third World countries. It also does not support a political psychology that equates a somewhat similar proposal made in 1976 with the present one.


Taking Down The Tupac Amaru: The Best And Worst Of Counterterrorism, Ibpp Editor May 1997

Taking Down The Tupac Amaru: The Best And Worst Of Counterterrorism, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Many informed observers are citing the Peruvian governments operation to rescue hostages held by the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) at the Japanese Ambassadors residence in Lima, Peru as a textbook success. These observers are already holding up the operation as a standard of counterterrorism (CT) excellence rivaling the Israeli rescue at Entebbe and the German rescue in Somalia. Are these observers right?


Intelligence On Intelligence: Comments On Khamisiyah, Ibpp Editor Apr 1997

Intelligence On Intelligence: Comments On Khamisiyah, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This paper describes some of the problems intrinsic to intelligence analysis. The description derives from a close reading of the unclassified document “Khamisiyah: A Historical Perspective on Related Intelligence” (9 April 1997) which was prepared by a United States (US) Intelligence Community (IC) Persian Gulf War Illnesses Task Force authorized by the Acting Director of Central Intelligence, George J.Tenet, and directed by his Special Assistant for Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses, Robert Walpole.


Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Iii), Ibpp Editor Apr 1997

Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Iii), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The last installment of this article posits proto-principles of propaganda. (See IBPP Vol. 1, No. 17 and Vol. 2, No.1 for the first two installments.)


Hardball Politics, The Chinese Connection, And The Psychology Of Linkage: Some Implications Of, Ibpp Editor Apr 1997

Hardball Politics, The Chinese Connection, And The Psychology Of Linkage: Some Implications Of, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

IBPP has posited some effects of globalization on individual psychologies ("Political Psychology and Globalization" (Vol. 1, No. 13)) and political tactics and structures ("Psychopolitical Effects of Globalization on Power: When Weakness Becomes Strength" (Vol. 1, No. 14.)) This article describes how new information technologies and old principles of social psychology may be combined in an era of globalization for effective information warfare during political conflict.


Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Ii), Ibpp Editor Apr 1997

Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Ii), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Part I of this paper (IBPP, Vol. 1, No. 17) describes the conceptual problems inherent to propaganda as process. Now Part II will describe the psychological rationale for why propaganda is employed by governments and nonstate actors regardless of these problems.


Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part I), Ibpp Editor Mar 1997

Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part I), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents a number of conceptual problems with assuming that political propaganda is an effective tool in seeking political power.


Suicide Bombing In Tel Aviv: Some Psychological Issues, Ibpp Editor Mar 1997

Suicide Bombing In Tel Aviv: Some Psychological Issues, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Several recurring Issues in the political psychology analysis of terrorism are illustrated in another Mideast tragedy.