Securitization of Disinformation in NATO’s Lexicon: A Computational Text Analysis

Akın ÜNVER; Ahmet KURNAZ

doi:https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1110500

Makale detayları

Securitization of Disinformation in NATO’s Lexicon: A Computational Text Analysis

Yazarlar:

Akın ÜNVER | Ahmet KURNAZ

Yayıncı:

Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Ana Başlıklar:

Uluslararası ilişkiler

Dergi:

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2022 Vol.11 Issue 2, pp.211-231

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2022

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000664225

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2757-9026

pISSN:

2146-7757

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1110500

Özet:

 

Following 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 Russia-focused securitization strategy and their attempt to mobilize the Baltic states and Poland in support of NATO’s mission.

Makale detayları

Securitization of Disinformation in NATO’s Lexicon: A Computational Text Analysis

Yazarlar: Akın ÜNVER | Ahmet KURNAZ

Yayıncı: Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Ana Başlıklar: Uluslararası ilişkiler

Dergi: All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2022 Vol.11 Issue 2, pp.211-231

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 7/2022

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000664225

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2757-9026

pISSN: 2146-7757

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1110500

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Akın ÜNVER | Ahmet KURNAZ

Yayıncı:

Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Ana Başlıklar:

Uluslararası ilişkiler

Dergi:

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2022 Vol.11 Issue 2, pp.211-231

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2022

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000664225

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2757-9026

pISSN:

2146-7757

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1110500