Political Warfare and Propaganda: Political Warfare and Propaganda: An Introduction

The Theory of Political Propaganda

Propaganda or science? Biological warfare and the people of Iraq.

In the months leading up to the Anglo-American attack on Iraq, there was a plethora of reports in leading biomedical journals about biological weapons and bioterrorism. The coverage seemed out of proportion to the public health importance of bioterrorism, which has claimed only a small number of lives worldwide. In 2002, there were many more articles on bioterrorism than there were articles on ...

Warfare, Political Identities, and Displacement in Spain and Colombia

This paper explores the causes of displacement during civil wars. Recent scholarship has shown that conventional civil wars – those in which forces are relatively balanced – and irregular civil wars – those in which one side is substantially stronger than the other – exhibit different patterns of violence. We hypothesize that, while the mode of violence differs, the form of displacement should ...

Propaganda and credulity

Article history: Received 13 April 2016 Available online 28 December 2016 JEL classification: D83

assessing political stability and instability in central asia and caucasus; case study, azerbaijan and kyrgyzstan

منطقه ی آسیای مرکزی وقفقاز به عنوان منطقه ای تاریخی و به دلیل دارا بودن ذخایر عظیم هیدرو کربنی از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. کشورهای این منطقه از عوامل عمده ی بی ثباتی نظیر عوامل جغرافیایی، اقتصادی، امنیتی، اجتماعی و سیاسی رنج می برند. پس از فروپاشی اتحاد جماهیر شوروی کشورهای منطقه از نعمت استقلال ناخواسته ای برخوردار شدند که مشکلات فوق را برای آن ها چندین برابر می کرد. در این روند برخی از این...