The Spring of 2018 has brought into sharp focus how differently states pursue
strategic communications. One particular incident, more spy novel than grand
politics, would have far reaching consequences beyond its original intent. In
March a former Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned using the
military-grade nerve agent Novichok, apparently smeared on the door handle
of his home in Salisbury, England. Sergei Skripal, a retired colonel with Russian
military intelligence, had previo...
Metaphors turn up where you least expect them. Netflix—the most prolific originator
of quality television drama in the US—recently launched a cop series about serial killers.
The clue is in the title Mindhunter. This whodunit is actually a howdunit. Or should that
be whydunit? Episode by intriguing episode it explores the minds and motivations of
murderers with a particular taste for exotic killing. And the protagonists of the drama
rapidly become drawn into the operational processes of the poli...
‘The world is a mess. The world is as angry as it gets,’ declared the new President
of the United States recently. The election of Donald J. Trump has coincided with,
perhaps arisen from, a period of unusual turbulence in early 21st century geopolitics.
Events have become difficult to read, no less predict. For all that Twitter diplomacy,
‘twiplomacy’, has sought to inject concision and clarity into politics, the reverse appears
to be unfolding. Truth, untruth, and post-truth: conversations arou...
Translation Studies which is a relatively new field of linguistic research has established itself as a valuable and independent perspective for looking not only at the process and product of translation but for ensuring a broader insight into the very nature of language itself. Research in Translation Studies is harmoniously aligned with the general development of the modern world and its features: dynamic existence, cross-border activities and experience (thus, the necessity for contrastive cas...
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the journal “Defence Strategic
Communications”, a new initiative form the NATO Strategic Communications
Centre of Excellence in Latvia. As the UK’s longest serving Defence Strategic
Communicator it is a privilege to be Chairman of the Editorial Board and I would
like to thank my board colleagues for their support, hard work, advice, and help in
preparing this issue. As the COE Director, Janis Sarts, says in his introduction the
NATO StratCom COE has come at a ...
The parallels between Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714–1780) and Gotthard
Friedrich Stender (1714–1796) have been analysed in the article by turning
attention to similar trends in Enlightenment writing in Protestant regions
of Courland and Eastern Prussia. The context of popular enlightenment has
been described by exploring similar and different themes in the works by K.
Donelaitis and G. F. Stender as well as the 18th century ‘discovery of people’
as an European phenomenon. The article consists of ...
Latvijas Universitātes Sociālo un politisko pētījumu institūts,2011. ISSN 1691-9017
The paper deals with post-Soviet Latvian autobiographies as a site wherein the social representations of Soviet period have been constructed. That is, I am concerned with the discursive repertoire undertaken by the autobiographers to normalize the Soviet experience. The normalization discourse is analyzed on three different levels: relations with Soviet institutions, the practices of everyday life, and comparisons between Soviet and post-Soviet experiences. I contend that, along with criticism o...
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