Thrilled to see my new article on Soviet Active Measures and the Second Cold War out now in @INTPOLITSOCIO. https://t.co/5FAIpBqb3h [Open Access] 🧵 Below

In hand for the first time.

My new article is out ! I outline what i find problematic about the 'is neoliberalism dead' debates. I propose a conceptual framework to account for both transformations in liberal governance and continuities in upholding market discipline https://t.co/JBRAuCzJMC

UPDATE: yesterday @routledgebooks @tandfonline told all staff that it's extra important to meet 2024 targets as they have promised the LLM companies a quota of books for them to digest to train their AIs. So if your editor is pushing you to meet that deadline, this is why!

PPR's 'super cool' Dr Alexis Moraitis analyses economic decline and state repression in France in an article for Contracultura.

Funny moment in the Tenet indictment: a Tenet founder, who have told Youtubers their funding is coming from a Western European businessman, emails the investor for more money. When no one responds, Tenet's founder drops the pretense and googles "time in Moscow"

My new (also, my first) article is out now in @Geopolitics_Jl! I draw on Spivak to make the case for essentialising borders around the resistance practices that we want to see against them. https://t.co/T6xj2mjzLx

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Thrilled to see my new article on Soviet Active Measures and the Second Cold War out now in @INTPOLITSOCIO. https://t.co/5FAIpBqb3h [Open Access] 🧵 Below

Washington Post national security columnist Max Boot's wife just got indicted for acting as a foreign agent

Special thanks to @WaltersWHCh @claudia_aradau @AnnaCasaglia @jamcjo @glouftsios @stamp @VmBasham @dagmarvorlicek @owendavidthomas for helpful feedback on this paper!

Perhaps most importantly, this article sheds light on the now-forgotten political drama of the 'active measure' in the 1980, a surprising omission given the widespread concern over Russian 'active measures' in the post-Trump era. END

Put simply, the idea of the 'active measure' worked to encourage ordinary Americans to imagine themselves as active participants in a kind of 'ideological combat' against the USSR. "To be for the Soviets" as Levchenko put it, "is to be for peace."

I argue that Project Truth was less a matter of verification — of adjudicating the truth-content of statements — and more a matter of what Foucault calls 'veridiction', a concern with how ordinary individuals understand the 'truth of themselves' as political subjects.

In response, the Reagan administration launched its so-called 'Project Truth,' an ostensible counter-disinformation program aimed at Soviet propaganda

Barron's key source was KGB defector Stanislav Levchenko, who was unbeknownst to the reading public working for the US intelligence community and the Working Group to publicise the danger of the 'active measure' in US political life.

One of the Working Group's key expositions appeared in Reader's Digest, written by John Barron, a former Navy Intelligence officer with close ties to the US and Western intelligence communities. Barron specifically identified the Freeze movement as a 'Soviet active measure'.

The group falsely claimed that the nuclear freeze movement was the result of covert Soviet actions that sought to 'trick' Americans into supporting a renewed Soviet 'peace offensive'. Ironically, the Group itself worked covertly to promote fear and distrust of the peace movement.

As I detail in the article, the active measures scare was not an organic response to increased danger posed by Soviet disinformation, rather it was the product of a concerted effort by an interagency group of Reagan appointees called the Active Measures Working Group.

While you may remember the prevalence of 'active measures' discourse in the aftermath of Trump's election in 2016, you will likely be less familiar with the original 'active measures' scare that saw english usage of the term peak in 1983

My article traces the origins of the 'active measure' in US national security discourses to the early 1980s and the Reagan administration's effort to paint the anti-war 'nuclear freeze' movement as a target and product of covert Soviet intelligence efforts.