338. Andrew Wilson - 'Political Technology' Developed in Russia is Being Used to Dismantle Democracies.

'Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional
engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and
propaganda – and now transformed the country into spectacle of blood,
circuses, fear, and hatred. But once developed, these techniques for
mass manipulation, that build parallel universes of alternative
political reality, can be shared by authoritarian regimes. Political
technology is being used to dismantle democracy in countries such as
Hungary and is now about much more than online disinformation: it is
about whole new industries of political engineering.
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Andrew Wilson is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the School of
Slavonic and East European Studies. Andrew’s area of expertise is the
comparative politics of democratisation in the post-Soviet states and
political technology. He is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European
Council on Foreign Relations. He is author of a remarkable series of
books, and the most recent of these will form the basis of our
discussion today: “Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political
Manipulation (2023)”.
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LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wilson_(historian)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wilson-88b48720/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/andrew-wilson
https://www.coleurope.eu/andrew-wilson
https://rusi.org/people/wilson
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation (2023)
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (2015)
Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West (2014)
Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (2014)
Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (2011)
Virtual Politics – Faking Democracy in the Post–Soviet World (2005)
Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith (1996)
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