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China’S “Three Warfares”: People’S Liberation Army Influence Operations, Edwin S. Cochran, U.S. Department Of Defense, Retired
China’S “Three Warfares”: People’S Liberation Army Influence Operations, Edwin S. Cochran, U.S. Department Of Defense, Retired
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The following article—whose author is both a retired US Army officer and retired Department of Defense civilian employee with multiple publications—focuses on Chinese information operations. Readers might wish to speculate on matters such as why the Chinese have organized the way they have, whether the organization leads to optimal integration of tools of national security/political power, and how vulnerable specific populations and even intelligence cultures are to specific types of information operations. One might even conclude that the only thing that has not changed in thousands of years has been the technology available to influence others.
This article examines the …
B613?, Donna Roberts
B613?, Donna Roberts
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
Comment from IBPP Editor: Psychological research traditions relevant to this article include (1) magical thinking not as schizotypal indicator but as normative phenomenon, (2) the developmental sequence of primary omniscience followed by the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions of Kleinian psychoanalysis, and (3) collective psychologies including the Jungian collective unconscious as exploitable by charismatic political leaders.
Author's abstract: Hollywood will always be Hollywood. There will always be ridiculous chase scenes, impossible rescues and implausible conspiracies, each accompanied by the proverbial warning, “Don’t try this at home.” But sometimes, when art seems to imitate life and aspects of the fantasy world on …
Politics, Culture And Media: Neo-Ottomanism As A Transnational Cultural Policy On Trt El Arabia And Trt Avaz, Y. Gökçen Karanfil, D. Burcu Eğilmez
Politics, Culture And Media: Neo-Ottomanism As A Transnational Cultural Policy On Trt El Arabia And Trt Avaz, Y. Gökçen Karanfil, D. Burcu Eğilmez
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
This article examines the ways in which Turkish Radio and Television Institution (TRT), as the public service broadcaster of Turkey, has been mobilized by the Justice and Development Party (JDP) to contribute to the dissemination of a neo-Ottomanist discourse in the neighboring geographies. Our focus is on two expansions of TRT, namely TRT Avaz and TRT El Arabia, that aim at reaching markets outside the national borders of Turkey. Our interest here lies in three intersecting phenomena. One is the notion of neo-Ottomanism and its deployment as a cultural policy geared towards a market of transnational viewers. The other is …
Ideology Watch: Television As A Source Of Violence, Ibpp Editor
Ideology Watch: Television As A Source Of Violence, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article provides a commentary on a commonly accepted belief about the causal relationship between viewing televised violence and the viewer’s violent behavior.
Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting As Antiterrorism Weapons: Philosophical Dilemmas, Ibpp Editor
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.
Trends. The Effects Of Televised Violence: Anecdotal Data From Lebanon, Ibpp Editor
Trends. The Effects Of Televised Violence: Anecdotal Data From Lebanon, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses the effects of televised violence in Lebanon, and its impact on both Hezbollah and Israeli Defense Forces.
Trends. Terra Incognita: Video Diplomacy, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Terra Incognita: Video Diplomacy, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses the potential political psychological consequences of video diplomacy between United States president, Bill Clinton (with whom the diplomatic video originated) and a group of political, military, and paramilitary leaders in Burundi.
Ibpp Research Associates. Macedonia, Anonymous - Skopje, Macedonia
Ibpp Research Associates. Macedonia, Anonymous - Skopje, Macedonia
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article is a note (lightly edited for English only) from a professor in Skopje, Macedonia that was addressed to a professional colleague of the IBPP Editorial Board in response to that colleague's inquiry into the situation in Macedonia. The author notes a difference between what has been broadcast via the Western media and the perceptions of conditions in-country.