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Securitization of disinformation in NATO’s lexicon: A computational text analysis

dc.contributor.authorÜnver, Hamid Akın
dc.contributor.authorKurnaz, A.
dc.contributor.departmentInternational Relations
dc.contributor.ozuauthorÜNVER, Hamid Akın
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-20T11:18:23Z
dc.date.available2023-06-20T11:18:23Z
dc.date.issued2022-07
dc.description.abstractFollowing the Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections, disinformation and fake news became popular terms to help generate domestic awareness against foreign information operations globally. Today, a large number of politicians, diplomats, and civil society leaders identify disinformation and fake news as primary problems in both domestic and foreign policy contexts. But how do security institutions define disinformation and fake news in foreign and security policies, and how do their securitization strategies change over years? Using computational methods, this article explores 238,452 tweets from official NATO and affiliated accounts, as well as more than 2,000 NATO texts, news statements, and publications since January 2014, presenting an unsupervised structural topic model (stm) analysis to investigate the main thematic and discursive contexts of these texts. The study finds that NATO’s threat discourse and securitization strategies are heavily influenced by the US’ political lexicon, and that the organization’s word choice changes based on their likelihood of mobilizing alliance resources and cohesion. In addition, the study suggests that the recent disinformation agenda is, in fact, a continuity of NATO’s long-standing Russiafocused securitization strategy and their attempt to mobilize the Baltic states and Poland in support of NATO’s mission.en_US
dc.description.versionPublisher versionen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.20991/allazimuth.1110500en_US
dc.identifier.endpage231en_US
dc.identifier.issn2146-7757en_US
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85135794608
dc.identifier.startpage211en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10679/8440
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1110500
dc.identifier.volume11en_US
dc.identifier.wos000812752000001
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.peerreviewedyesen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.publisherCenter for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAll Azimuth
dc.relation.publicationcategoryInternational Refereed Journal
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.keywordsNatoen_US
dc.subject.keywordsRussiaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSecuritizationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsStructural topic modelen_US
dc.subject.keywordsText analysisen_US
dc.titleSecuritization of disinformation in NATO’s lexicon: A computational text analysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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