This article investigates two accounts of political propaganda in autocratic regimes. One
argues that propaganda's content does not matter substantively and that propaganda is …

How do scammers invoke trust within the Nigerian email scam and how do recipients
interpret such trust-laden offers? Rather than view the email content as static, this article …

This study investigates the audience of state-media broadcasts (SMBs) among Chinese
Internet users—a missing link for understanding political communications in the high-choice …

How does the North Korean government view China? This study examines North Korea's
foreign policy on China by analyzing the strategic options of North Korean leaders and …

Threatening propaganda—particularly when extreme and frequent—is often considered
“cheap talk.” However, this article argues systematic and comprehensive analysis of such …

ABSTRACT In North Korea, as elsewhere, there exists a society beyond the state, and an
everyday life where government authority meets and mixes with the private sphere …

This chapter argues that character assassination (CA) was not simply a sanctioning
mechanism of the Soviet regime, but a structural property of Marxism-Leninism, the official …

What is the role of emotions in conflict resolution, and how can a reconceptualisation of
emotions in international relations beyond the discipline be used to understand North …

This article examines the ways in which the North Korean regime filters and re-interprets
various 'messages' from the outside world for its domestic audience through the lens of state …

This article examines the patterns in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (North
Korea's) use of hostile rhetoric in its internationally-directed messaging. The article first …