Branding Democracy: U.S. Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe (Frontiers in Political Communication)
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| Title | : | Branding Democracy: U.S. Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe (Frontiers in Political Communication) |
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (157 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433105314 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2010-02-24 |
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Branding Democracy: U.S. Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe is a study of the uses of systemic propaganda in U.S. foreign policy. Moving beyond traditional understandings of propaganda, Branding Democracy analyzes the expanding and ubiquitous uses of domestic public persuasion under a neoliberal regime and an informational mode of development and its migration to the arena of foreign policy. A highly mobile and flexible corporate-dominated new informational economy is the foundation of intensified Western marketing and promotional culture across spatial and temporal divides, enabling transnational interests to integrate territories previously beyond their reach. U.S. «democracy promotion» and interventions in the Eastern European «color revolutions» in the early twenty-first century serve as studies of neoliberal state interests in action. Branding Democracy will be of interest to students of U.S. and European politics, political ec
Editorial : -Gerald Sussman's 'Branding Democracy' offers a crucial analysis of the ways in which citizens are under assault from an army trying to control our minds. With a sophisticated understanding of modern propaganda, Sussman looks at the way our government sells empire through 'democracy promotion'. If real democracy is to emerge in this world, we must take Sussman's analysis to heart.- (Robert Jensen, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin; Author of 'Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream' (Peter Lang, 2002))"
government pushed a “soft power” agenda.
Another March 2010 email from Stewart to Burton said that CANVAS was “trying to get rid of Chavez,” referring to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. When used properly, more powerful than an aircraft carrier battle group.”
In response to the “aircraft battle group” email, Stratfor Vice President of Intelligence Fred Burton sardonically said that perhaps they could be sent into Iran. Good service. does not like ,” Papic says in one email. The economic hitmen are working overtime producing a reverse Cuban missile crisis in Ukraine. So useful was Popovic to Stratfor that the firm gave him a free subscription, dubbed “legit sources we use all the time as a company” by Papic.
In a June 2011 email, Papic referred to Popovic as a “great friend” of his and described him as a “Serb activist who travels the world fomenting revolution.”
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