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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 …
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.
Political Psychology In The Contemporary Political World, Ibpp Editor
Political Psychology In The Contemporary Political World, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This edition of IBPP explores several recent political events from the vantage point of political psychological perspectives and constructs.
21st-Century Crusades And Demonizing Islam: Commentary On Inderfuth, Ibpp Editor
21st-Century Crusades And Demonizing Islam: Commentary On Inderfuth, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article comments on public discourse transmitted through Western-financed mass media that attempts to demonize variants of Islam--e.g., that of the Taliban.
Trends. Meanings And Words: Communication Catalysis And Reactivity In The Mideast, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Meanings And Words: Communication Catalysis And Reactivity In The Mideast, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses the nature of public discourse and fact construction in the context of the conflict between the state of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority.
Trends. Politics And Cyberpsychology, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Politics And Cyberpsychology, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The IBPP editor discusses political changes that might come about given the continual expansion of the Internet.
Rumor, Social Contagion, And Truth: Not So Strange Political Bedfellows, Ibpp Editor
Rumor, Social Contagion, And Truth: Not So Strange Political Bedfellows, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes the shared epistemological foundations of the political communication of rumor and truth.
Mass Media And Violence: Science As Ideology, Ideology As Science, Ibpp Editor
Mass Media And Violence: Science As Ideology, Ideology As Science, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article critiques a commonly promulgated belief that mass media-conveyed violence induces commensurate behavioral violence in its recipients.
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. The Political Psychology Of The Psychology Of The Internet, Ibpp Editor
Trends. The Political Psychology Of The Psychology Of The Internet, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses whether Internet users experience higher levels of loneliness and depression than non-users. It is based on one study from Carnegie Mellon University, and another joint study from the Stanford Institute for the Qualitative Study of Society and the Free University of Berlin.
The Last Article About A New Millennium? Alarms About Alarms About Political Terrorism, Ibpp Editor
The Last Article About A New Millennium? Alarms About Alarms About Political Terrorism, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes some of the communication complexities in informing and alerting the general public about political terrorism.
Ibpp Feature Analysis: Political Sea Change Or Mass-Mediated Political Spectacle? The 1999 Election Campaign In New Zealand, Laurence Alfred Powell
Ibpp Feature Analysis: Political Sea Change Or Mass-Mediated Political Spectacle? The 1999 Election Campaign In New Zealand, Laurence Alfred Powell
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article examines the impact of mass media on elections during the 1999 election campaign in New Zealand.
Law Enforcement And Political Demonstrations As The Whole World Watches: The Rise Of Globocop?, Ibpp Editor
Law Enforcement And Political Demonstrations As The Whole World Watches: The Rise Of Globocop?, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article posits that--at present--the promise of global telecommunications-induced progress for human and civil rights may be oversold.
Ibpp Research Associates: The Reporters Committee For Freedom Of The Press, The Reporters Committee For Freedom Of The Press
Ibpp Research Associates: The Reporters Committee For Freedom Of The Press, The Reporters Committee For Freedom Of The Press
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The article is a posting of a press release from The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press regarding the leadership of that organization.
Trends. Reactions To Serial Shootings, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Reactions To Serial Shootings, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The article discusses two classes of reactions when the mass media promulgate stories of serial shootings.
Ibpp Research Associates: Nigeria, Staff Writer - The Post Express
Ibpp Research Associates: Nigeria, Staff Writer - The Post Express
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author - a staff writer at The Post Express - discusses The Express, describing it as an independent newspaper based out of Ogun, Nigeria and dedicated to promoting the prospects of democracy and justice in Nigeria and to reaching those who have not abandoned the faith that human affairs are best administered in the spirit of reason and in a climate of true democracy. This description led into a short article - Senate Honours Abiola - which described the honoring of the late Chief Abiola, presumed winner of the 6/12/1993 presidential election who died in detention.
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The Internet And Political Campaigns: Some Early Considerations, Ibpp Editor
The Internet And Political Campaigns: Some Early Considerations, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article provides hypotheses on the effects of the Internet on political campaigns. The IBPP staff hopes that researchers among its readers will attempt to evaluate these hypotheses through combinations of empiricism, rationalism, and other epistemological approaches.
Nonexplosive Warfare: Is It New Or Old?, Ibpp Editor
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.
The Taliban Touch: Is Smashing Tv Sets A Smashing Idea?, Ibpp Editor
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.
Trends. Necessity As The Mother Of Invention: International Crime In An Era Of Globalization, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Necessity As The Mother Of Invention: International Crime In An Era Of Globalization, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses how the increasing reach and efficiency of telecommunications and mass transport in an era of globalization pose new opportunity for international crime.
Managing The Mass Media Through Murder: Primary Prevention In Perception Management, Ibpp Editor
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. From Pumpkin Papers To Pumpkin Capers: Washington Scandals, Ibpp Editor
Trends. From Pumpkin Papers To Pumpkin Capers: Washington Scandals, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses how in the late 1940s and into the 1950s--an era of both Communist hysteria and significant Communist threat within the United States (US)--pumpkin connoted scandal, as in the infamous pumpkin papers.
Information Warfare, China, And South Korea: More Than A Military Concept, Ibpp Editor
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.
Trends. Immediate Implications Of The Khatami Interview, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Immediate Implications Of The Khatami Interview, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article analyzes CNN's Christiane Amanpour's interview of Iran's President Mohammad Khatami.
Philosophical Issues In Verification Of Weapons Limitation, Reduction, And Nonproliferation Treaties, Ibpp Editor
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
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
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.
Rumor Analysis: Nato, Radiation Weapons, And Gornja Omarska, Ibpp Editor
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.
Taking Down The Tupac Amaru: A Personal Account, Ibpp Editor
Taking Down The Tupac Amaru: A Personal Account, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article was submitted by Cesar Gayoso, Policy Analyst and Editor of Taller de Psicologia, who is affiliated with Pontificia Universidad Catolicia del Peru. He also is an IBPP Regional Editor and he desires commentary from readers . His article is a personal account of the political psychological effects of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement's (MRTA) takeover of the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru, the Peruvian government's operation to end the takeover and free hostages, and the operation's aftermath. Readers should also consult "Taking Down the Tupac Amaru: The Best and Worst of Counterterrorism" in IBPP, Vol. 2, No. …
Intelligence On Intelligence: Comments On Khamisiyah, Ibpp Editor
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.