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Professor, @uwjsis. Post-Soviet politics, conspiracy theories, dis/misinfo; author of Revealing Schemes & Enemies Within: Global Politics of Fifth Columns
Jun 2, 2021 9 tweets 8 min read
Revealing Schemes is out! A brief summary...

@kennaninstitute @McFaul @edwardlucas @jillrussia @BBCSteveR @RidT @joannalillis @Peter__Leonard @wiczipedia @seansrussiablog @jenmercieca @BrendanNyhan @steveswerdlow @NathanKalmoe @ccaryl @williamjdobson @cjcmichel @KevinRothrock Revealing Schemes regards conspiracy theories as a form of propaganda and asks why regimes promote them. Moving beyond the conventional wisdom about paranoid or tyrannical personal styles, it examines how conspiracy claims emerge from the dynamics of (post-Soviet) politics.