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The Strategic Use Of External Threat In The Shaping Of Russian Domestic And Foreign Policies, Roman Voytovych Jan 2022

The Strategic Use Of External Threat In The Shaping Of Russian Domestic And Foreign Policies, Roman Voytovych

Dissertations and Theses

The state of Russia has experienced multiple shifts during various phases of its development and, along with that, it has influenced the world of international diplomacy on a grand scale. From being the world`s second superpower with huge military and political capabilities to becoming a disintegrated regional power, there definitely has been a certain degree of change which has impacted both the Russian political establishment as well as ordinary people. The slow process of the degradation of the “big empire” actually had its roots during Soviet times when the Soviet Union faced the Chernobyl catastrophe, the war in Afghanistan, the …


Fake News: Is Truth Really Under Attack?, Ibpp Editor Jul 2018

Fake News: Is Truth Really Under Attack?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Attacking fake news may be as fake as fake news. Or so suggests Western epistemology.


Psychological Warfare And The Kingdom Of Shame, Ibpp Editor Jul 2018

Psychological Warfare And The Kingdom Of Shame, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Psychological warfare is commonly referred to as a battle for hearts and minds. But inducing desired behavioral change is more complicated as the psychology of shame illustrates.


Winning The Disinformation War: Suturing The Soul, Ibpp Editor Jun 2018

Winning The Disinformation War: Suturing The Soul, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

In a world of false facts and fake news, what is the crucial psychology underlying what people believe?


Russian Anti-Americanism, Public Opinion And The Impact Of The State-Controlled Mass Media, Natalie Manaeva Rice Dec 2015

Russian Anti-Americanism, Public Opinion And The Impact Of The State-Controlled Mass Media, Natalie Manaeva Rice

Doctoral Dissertations

From 2011 to 2015, a rise in anti-Americanism was strongly reflected in Russian public opinion during President Vladimir Putin’s third term. The study examined the phenomenon of anti-Americanism in Russia and the role of state-controlled mass media in promoting anti-American attitudes. Statistical analysis of polls conducted in Russia by the Pew Research Center in 2012 demonstrated that anti-Americanism in Russian society should not be treated as a monolithic phenomenon. A segment of the Russian populace held a strong and deep-seated anti-American ideological bias that affected its perception of everything related to the United States. Other sentiments, however, fit a more …


Hamas Controlled Televised News Media: Counter- Peace, Allen Gnanam Jan 2009

Hamas Controlled Televised News Media: Counter- Peace, Allen Gnanam

Allen Gnanam

The hegemonic force of Hamas censored televised news media in Gaza, can not be fully comprehended and appreciated without recognizing the role of propaganda, censorship, and the historical context of the middle east. These 3 interrelated dimensions will be analyzed using functionalism, the mass society theory, the dominant ideology framework, the critical criminology framework, and the symbolic interactionist framework. Through censorship, Hamas news media outlets were able to unilaterally inject culturally relevant propaganda, into the minds of children and citizens. The hypodermic syringe model can be applied to the state controlled news media situation in Gaza, as the people of …


Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting As Antiterrorism Weapons: Philosophical Dilemmas, Ibpp Editor Nov 2002

Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting As Antiterrorism Weapons: Philosophical Dilemmas, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes problematic assumptions in differentiating public diplomacy from international broadcasting as weapons against terrorism with global reach.


Propaganda Analysis: The Personal Is Political, But The Political Is Personal, Ibpp Editor May 2000

Propaganda Analysis: The Personal Is Political, But The Political Is Personal, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article analyzes implications of a propaganda theme--viz., the personal is political.


Trends. Immaterial Materialism: The Communist Party Confronts Falun Gong And Qi Gong In The People's Republic Of China, Ibpp Editor Jul 1999

Trends. Immaterial Materialism: The Communist Party Confronts Falun Gong And Qi Gong In The People's Republic Of China, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the April 1999 demonstration by members of the Falun Gong sect outside the Zhongnanhai compound in Beijing.


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.


Disinformation: Iraq, The United Nations (Un), And The United States Government (Usg), Ibpp Editor Nov 1997

Disinformation: Iraq, The United Nations (Un), And The United States Government (Usg), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes components of alleged disinformation propagated by the Iraqi government concerning the USG in the context of UN inspection teams established pursuant to the Persian Gulf War of 1991.


Pen, Peru, Pornography, Propaganda, And Power, Ibpp Editor Oct 1997

Pen, Peru, Pornography, Propaganda, And Power, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the postmodern approaches to basic tenets of science which often deconstruct basic concepts such as cause and effect, prediction, empirical validation, and the like.


Trends. The Land Mines Treaty: A Strict Constructionist Approach, Ibpp Editor Sep 1997

Trends. The Land Mines Treaty: A Strict Constructionist Approach, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the United States Government (USG) announcement that it will not sign the Land Mines Treaty because land mines are still needed to protect US security


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.