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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.


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.


Getting Away With Murder: The Mass Media's Role In Staging Crime, Ibpp Editor Sep 1997

Getting Away With Murder: The Mass Media's Role In Staging Crime, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a problem created by the mass media and confronted by criminal-investigative analysts at crime scenes at which murder seems to have been perpetrated.


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.)


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.