strategic influence

What to do about Venezuela: The case for political & psychological strategy

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by J. Michael Waller / Occasional Paper Series No. 6 / Center for Security Policy, May 2005. Among the more troubling legacies Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has inherited is one of neglect towards the Western Hemisphere, a legacy that has seriously diminished the United States’ stature and influence in most of the Americas This is due, in … Read more

Introduction to dismantling a secret police state

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Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council and J. Michael Waller edited a series of articles on the legacies of totalitarian secret police systems. Those articles were published in August, 2004, in Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization. Berman and Waller co-wrote the following introduction to the series: When a totalitarian group seizes power, whether by parliamentary maneuver or … Read more

Russia: Death and resurrection of the KGB

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by J Michael Waller, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. XII, No. 3, 2004, pp. 333-355. The George Washington University is the repository of Demokratizatsiya journal. The roots of all of the most efficient political police systems in modern his- tory can be traced to December 20, 1917. On that day, the new Bolshevik … Read more

Public diplomacy: A vital component of US aid in the Americas (House, 2003)

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J. Michael Waller, Annenberg Professor of International Communication Testimony before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs Subcommittee International Relations Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, November 5, 2003. Text TK

Terrorist & Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the United States (Senate, 2003)

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Testimony of J. Michael Waller, Ph.D. Annenberg Professor of International Communication Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security Senate Committee on the Judiciary 14 October 2003 Thank you, Chairman Kyl, and members of the Subcommittee for holding this important series of hearings. Thank you also for inviting me to testify on the subject … Read more

Alamoudi and those bags of Libyan cash

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by J. Michael Waller, Insight, October 13, 2003. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. citizen has been sentenced to 23 years in jail on charges related to his activities in the United States and abroad with nations and organizations that have ties to terrorism, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security announced today. … Read more