... ideological repercussions that could arise from such openness? Fortunately, the East German archives offer unprecedented insights into festival preparations, ideological strategies, and conflicts, given East Germany’s pivotal supportive role in North Korea’s hosting endeavors. Drawing extensively from...

...Thuy Nguyen This article shows how the Communist Party of Vietnam has proactively deployed ideological indoctrination in the higher education system to raise submissive youth as well as to suppress dissenting academics. By demonstrating the use of organizational constraint and ideological...

... of the national community, but also the ideological and institutional resources that underpin the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) program of industrial resourcification and modernization. Our argument focuses on the mutual constitution and coproduction of natural, ideological, and institutional regime...

...Filip Ilkowski The aim of this article is to show with the example of contemporary Poland the ideological function of anti-communism. It explains how “communism” has been constructed and utilized mainly in order to legitimize the political/economic power in the decades of Transition after 1989...

...Francis L. F. Lee; Gary K. Y. Tang; Samson Yuen; Edmund W. Cheng This article examines the Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement and uses claim making and claim transformation as a window to look at ideological struggle in Hong Kong. The analysis recounts the emergence of a specific...

...Anthony DiFilippo This article will analyze the connection between history, countervailing ideologies, that is, the legacy of the Cold War, and the perceived identification of human rights violations as they pertain to countries with major security interests in Northeast Asia. This article...

...Diana T. Kudaibergenova What are the mechanisms of legitimation in non-democratic and linguistically divided states? How do regimes in these states use and manipulate the ideology and nation-building for the purposes of regime legitimation? The article focuses on the concept of compartmentalized...

..., Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World , are reviewed here and they provide historical details. A consistent theme that emerges is the importance of ideological factors in driving the events are discussed. It is also clear that the Third World states were not passive objects...

... by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Ideology World War II Stalin Balancing Wedge strategy Th World War II Stalin Balancing Wedge strategy tics in to rec k up Stalin would avoid 013 In his diary, ional (ECCI), sum- s erial and so forth...

...Vladimir Shlapentokh Vladimir Putin provides us with an excellent example of a politician whose attitude toward ideology is instrumental to his political longevity. He has shown that in the fight between ideology and political expedience, to maintain authority and control within the country...

... given this classification, and highlight the importance of ideology therein. Next, we demonstrate the importance of film within North Korea’s ideological apparatus and thematically analyze six North Korean films dating from 1948–2006. From this analysis, we situate the social role of film...

... of California. Keywords: Colour revolutions ; Orange revolution; Transition studies; Collective agency; Discourse theory; Ideology; Political subjectivity The Colour revolutions in the former Soviet Union: mass mobilization and the response of political science have brought this region back to the attention...

... of their institutional, personnel and ideological continuity with the defunct Communist Party. The second section traces the political evolution of Communist successor parties, and argues that their remarkably strong and consistent electoral performance is primarily due to their ability to appeal to voters beyond...

...-mail address: [email protected] © 2005 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2005 The Regents of the University of California Putin Ideology Short time horizon Political elites Economic elites Masses The short time horizon...

... view, what drives so-called reform has much less to do with issues of ideology, as the focus on reformers would suggest, and much more to do with the playing out of rivalries between new state business interests, which have emerged largely since the late 1980s. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 35...