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