Fisher, Scott. How do authoritarian states react when targeted by the use of information as a foreign policy tool?. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-skcb-nk94
DescriptionUsing sentiment analysis of government media and case studies of North Korea and Russia as proxies for authoritarian states attempting to control their domestic information environment, this research demonstrates that information tools capable of threatening that control produce a consistently negative reaction at least equal to the more common diplomatic, economic, and military tools of statecraft.