"Defence Strategic Communications" is an international peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal is a project of the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (NATO StratCom COE). It is produced for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners around the world.

Contents

Foreword: Ch-ch-changes of simply Good Vibrations? / Neville Bolt, p. 5

Beyond the State: A Corporate Shaping of South Africa’s Political Imagination / Mitch Ilbury, p. 20

Solar Geoengineering: Protecting Democratic Deliberations in a Contested Information Environment / Trish Lavery, p. 61

Ideologies and National Identities in Armenia’s Education Discourse: Path-Dependent Relics of the Communist Past? / Shushan Grigoryan, p. 108

Bulgaria as a Russian Propaganda Laboratory / Milena Iakimova, Boryana Dimitrova, Veronika Dimitrova, Olga Nanova, Lyubomir Donchev, Valentin Valkanov, Dimitar Vatsov, p. 143

Japan’s ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ and Russian and Chinese Information Influence / Chiyuki Aoi, Martin Innes, Emma Martin, Tara Flores, p. 174

It’s Time StratCom Got Strategic about AI / Louis Brooke, p. 222

From Private Unhappiness to Public Outrage: The Emotional Origins of Twenty-First-Century Populism / Vera Michlin - Shapir, p. 245