Greg Simons
Biographic Data
| ID | 298404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Simons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Simons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMONS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6111-5325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 16 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Russia and Turkey in the 21st Century: The Dynamics of Soft Power Versus Strategic Pragmatism in the Chaos of International Relations Transformation
The global geopolitical balance of power is rapidly transforming in the 21st century, swinging away from the Global North towards the Global South. This is affecting international relations and foreign policy as there are increasing different visions and perspectives that move away from established Western-oriented theory and practice. The result is a need to rethink such key concepts and their application as soft power, which has evolved in prac…
Salient topics in the local news of the digital media and societal security: A cross-national comparative study
The paper presents a cross-national comparative study of the content of the media agenda in Russia, Tajikistan, Latvia, Sweden, and Bangladesh. The media agenda is reconstructed through journalistic materials as components of the national digital media systems. Based on social-cultural and semantic approaches, concepts of salience and diversity, the authors examined the national media content that was released simultaneously and reproduced the lo…
Introduction to the Special Issue: The (Ir)relevance of Soft Power in An Evolving Global Order
This special issue intends to delve in to the question of whether soft power still matters and is relevant or not in international relations. Soft power as an academic concept and a foreign policy practice was born in a geopolitical era that is qualitatively speaking, vastly different from the current era of geopolitical transformation that the world of international relations finds itself at now. The world is becoming increasingly divided along …
Projecting ‘Hybrid Warfare’: Western Discursive Representation of Chinese Foreign Policy
China is the single largest state-based international actor that is a major threat to the continued hegemony of the United States’ unipolar order. As such, a campaign of obstructive foreign policy is being waged against China through the obstructive marketing of China as a sinister threat and unreliable actor against the ‘rules-based order.’ By attempting to undermine China’s soft power potential, it is hoped that China’s global rise can be const…
New Zealand’s Foreign Policy Balancing of China and the United States in the Indo-Pacific Region: Narratives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Annual Reports
In the context of the evolving international relations system, small states are vulnerable to changes and transformations due to their limited capacity to adapt to the new operational environment of foreign and security policy risks and challenges. Given the increasing global geopolitical instability, including in the Indo-Pacific region in the wake of the United States’ Asia Pivot, this article seeks to address how a small state attempts to navi…
Rethinking Warfare in the 21st Century: The Influence and Effects of the Politics, Information and Communication Mix
This book seeks to critically review and evaluate the changes and consistencies in how warfare is interpreted and represented by academics, mass media outlets and political actors in the 21st century. The authors suggest that it is essential to understand the evolution and transformation of contemporary warfare's conceptualisation and practice in order to make sense of the current global geopolitical transformations that are in process, from a un…
Rethinking Warfare in the 21st Century
The Culture and Language of Contemporary Armed Conflict
Culture and language are crucial elements of the information realm to interpret and represent contemporary armed conflict in the cognitive realm. They set the tone for how different audiences perceive mediated conflict events, which engineers observers’ opinions, perceptions and responses to the physical realm event. Language and culture have been instrumentalised by Western countries to facilitate conflict and warfare, creating unneccessary wars…
The politics of collective memory and intergenerational transmission: Victory Day in Ural Newspaper coverage
The significance and symbolism of the Great Patriotic War and Victory Day has grown in its political and social importance in terms of the communication of collective memory in the inter-generational transmission of norms and values by mass media. Victory Day is the iconic moment that has come to symbolise and concentrate the desirable values and traits required of “good” citizens to meet the contemporary challenges of domestic politics and inter…
Rethinking Warfare in the 21st Century: The Influence and Effects of the Politics, Information and Communication Mix
Energy market wars as a factor of military-political escalation in Eastern Mediterranean region: A Russian perspective
Regional multipolarity has increased the complexity of geopolitical interests along with the worsening of international relations. Geopolitics is a means of not only interpreting the state of the political environment, but also in projecting the desired geo-economic end state for an actor. A much more pragmatic approach to securing perceived national interests is observed among newly emerging non-Western international actors in the Mediterranean …
Engagement in licit ventures by terrorist organisations and terrorism financing in the Lake Chad region
Despite efforts by countries in the Lake Chad region and their partners to suffocate the insurgency in the region, insurgents have continued to execute deadly attacks on civilians and military positions. Extant literature shows that the insurgency is sustained by factors like ideology, poverty, politics, arms proliferation, money laundering, external influence, among others. Not much has been done by scholars to establish the linkage between proc…
The implementation of the pentahelix model for the terrorism deradicalization program in Indonesia
The policy of countering terrorism in Indonesia is carried out through hard power (namely law enforcement) and soft power (in the form of counter-radicalism and de-radicalization). The deradicalization program of terrorism carried out by the Indonesian government, especially the National Counterterrorism Agency, has been running less than optimally, with indicators of the many acts of terrorism occurring in Indonesian territory. This study aims t…
US Political Leadership and Crisis Communication During Covid-19
The research explored the role of political leadership in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The researchers conducted a political discourse analysis on 239 transcripts from the press briefings of President Trump and seven U. S. governors to determine the extent to which the research subjects used effective crisis leadership and communication. These results suggest that President Trump and Governors DeSantis, DeWine, Ducey, and Ivey ar…
Capitalizing on religious narratives: The reconstruction of militants' reality in Northern Pakistan
This article examines how militants in Northern Pakistan capitalized on religious narratives to reconstruct militants’ reality in anticipation to help entrench their presence and control in the conflict torn district of Swat. The study entailed collection of data from both primary as well as secondary sources. Primary data were collected through conducting semi-structured interviews, whereas secondary data were collected through a rigorous review…
Monte Carlo simulation of vote counts from Nigeria presidential elections
This study was designed to examine the application of Monte Carlo simulation to analyse vote counts from the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections in Nigeria. The study adopted a simulation approach and the data were simulated using the R programming language. The actual and simulated data were analysed using frequency and percentage distribution as well as Spearman Rank Correlation tests. Findings revealed that the vote counts for People’s Democr…
Security diplomacy as a response to Horn of Africa’s security complex: Ethio-US partnership against al-Shabaab
Following the attack on the United States of America, counterterrorism against al-Shabaab attracted the attention of great powers and countries in the Horn of Africa. The threat of al-Shabaab in the region continued to be critical as counterterrorism is persistently commenced in cooperation with powerful states such as the United States of America and regional and international organizations. Despite counterterrorism operations in the region, the…
Comparative study of local ownership and democratic governance of security sector reform: The case of Liberia and Sierra Leone
This article provided a comparative study of Liberia and Sierra Leone military reform and tried to understand the relationship and bridge the literature gap by interpreting the relationship between democratic governance and local ownership of (SSR). It adopts a comparative analysis and historical documentation as a research methodology to investigate the relevance of local ownership in democratic military governance during the SSR process. These …
Neoliberal securitization and symbolic violence: Silencing political, academic and societal resistance
Hard and Soft Power Approaches to Armed Conflicts: The United States in Iraq and Russia in Syria
Armed conflicts are generally associated with the use of hard power for coercing and forcing an opponent to do something against its will in a situation where war is an extension of politics. However, there are many scholarly observations about the important role of soft power in armed conflicts, the interaction between hard and soft power, and the effects on one another within the framework of an armed conflict. This paper explores two specific …
Political Marketing in a Changing World: Global, National and Regional Dimensions
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Russia’s Public Diplomacy: Evolution and Practice
Investigative journalism in ghana: Balancing public interest and individual privacy
This paper examines the complexity of balancing public interest and individual rights in the use of investigative journalism to combat corruption.The paper looks at a number of public interest journalism exposés and the various methods that the investigative journalists used to uncover corruption in public and private institutions in the country. The principal assumption of this paper is that undercover journalism, pushes journalism ethics to the…
Pressing quest on the feasibility of Ethio-Eritrea rapprochement
“Comrades Combat” to the rootless aftermath! This paper was set out aiming at figure out the major debates on the feasibility of the Ethio-Eritrean rapprochement alongside its implementation procedures immediately Abiy Ahmed hold the ultimate political power in Ethiopia. To address the stated objective, data were gathered via in-depth interview with foreign relation experts in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; the Ministry of Foreign A…
Preventing polarization: An empirical evaluation of a dialogue training
Governments implement many anti-polarization-programs to prevent radicalization. Evaluations of these programs give insights in either (psychological) effects, program-mechanisms or contexts, but often do not show how they interact. This study provided such a model and increased awareness of the psychological complexity behind polarization prevention. We evaluated a dialogue-training that aimed to prevent polarization by giving adolescents with e…
Censorship in Contemporary Russian Journalism in the Age of the War Against Terrorism: A Historical Perspective
The Russian mass media system has experienced tremendous change since the Soviet era. It has been argued that some similarities still exist between the old Soviet system and the new post-Soviet media, such as the practice of self-censorship. Pressure has been mounting on the mass media's level of editorial freedom since the late Yeltsin era, beginning with a raft of new laws introduced under the guise of keeping the media ‘honest’. One contempora…
Brand Isis: Interactions of the Tangible and Intangible Environments
This article investigates how the infamous terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) uses branding and political marketing as means to increase their intangible value and assets in order to influence their tangible (operational) capacities. In order to investigate the logic of a terrorist organization as a political actor a perspective of political communication is applied as a means to understand more clearly the propaganda of the word and the…
World of Media: Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies
It is never an easy task to review an edited volume due to the shear diversity of the content that is presented to the reader. This book is no exception to this rule. There is a great deal of diver
Policy and Political Marketing: Promoting Conflict as Policy
This paper is an attempt to try and understand the processes and interactions that take place in society when a group attempts to lobby in favor of contentious forms of public policy, which may not necessarily be in national or public interest, through the political marketing lens. What are the necessary environmental conditions in society and political tactics employed that could be sufficient to try and influence and persuade a public to accept…
Putin’s International Political Image
This article concerns how publics perceive and relate to a foreign politician. There is no formal relationship between these groups as the publics have no ability to participate in national elections that could validate or detract the aura of legitimacy of the politician. Therefore the relationship could be more informal in nature and based upon perceived similarities and differences of held norms and values. President Vladimir Putin of Russia is…
The Role of Russian NGOs in New Public Diplomacy
The manner in which public diplomacy is being practiced is constantly evolving, new means are being developed to create political relationships between states and international publics. Countries are competing globally for the hearts and minds of international publics in their quest for gaining and accumulating soft power. This quest is driven by the assumption that soft power gives countries that possess it advantages, such as a freer hand in fo…
Debating public diplomacy: Now and next
Debating Public Diplomacy is a book edited by the highly experienced public diplomacy researchers, Jan Melissen and Jian Wang, which contains 12 chapters. The volume is heavily argumentative and de
South caucasus and a ‘New Great Game’: The communication of competition in securitised international relations
This article seeks to compare and analyse the historical and contemporary arguments concerning the existence of the brand the ‘Great Game’ in Central Asia with that of a ‘new’ Great Game in the South Caucasus, while assessing the validity and problems of using this term. The article analyses the regional state of affairs and possible impacts of the Russian factor in forging close relations between South Caucasus states and NATO. It is argued that…
Hybrid war and cyber-attacks: Creating legal and operational dilemmas
Nowadays hybrid warfare is considered a significant security challenge; within this wider threat category are cyber incidents that are considered one of the main perceived threats in modern society for every country. The number of incidents in cyber space is constantly growing, but methods of its realisation are evolving. One of the most dangerous consequences of cyber-attacks is a planned or spontaneous chain effect that is accompanied by destru…
Sweden and the Nato debate: Views from Sweden and Russia
Sweden is a country that has a reputation and historical legacy as being “neutral” and working for peaceful solutions to different global problems after the bitter experiences in the 18th and 19th centuries that saw it fall as a regional power of the Baltic Sea region in a series of conflicts with the Russian Empire. Contemporary mainstream politics and society places itself firmly in the camp of global liberalism and the stressing the importance…
Islamic extremism and the war for hearts and minds
This article seeks to explore the extremist publications Inspire (Al Qaeda) and Dabiq (Islamic State) English-language editions, to deconstruct the information in order to see how they attempt to appeal to publics in the Western world. Four issues of each are examined and reveal a number of similarities in approach. The emphasis of the communication is via a negative political campaign against the West and its allies, rather than a comprehensive …
The International Crisis Group and the manufacturing and communicating of crises
The International Crisis Group (icg) has the motto ‘working to prevent conflict worldwide’. As an organisation the icg occupies a very specific niche role, which is related to crises of a political nature, specifically armed conflict. While the icg employs a negative understanding of crisis, the academic definition of what a crisis may constitute is broader, as it can actually represent an opportunity for some actors. This article, written from a…
Attempting to Re-brand the Branded: Russia’s International Image in the 21st Century
The way in which international relations are being conducted in the 21st century is evolving from the earlier reliance on government to government communications and the use of hard power in order to achieve policy objectives. Currently there is a rush by countries around the world to build up their soft power potential and use attraction as a persuasion and means to attain their goals, Russia being one of these countries. This article focuses on…
Fourth Generation Warfare and The Clash of Civilizations
This article looks at the nature of Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW), and how theories such as the ‘clash of civilizations’ impact upon this type of warfare. The ‘new’ ways in which wars are waged, and their success (or failure) is measured, are strongly influenced by political processes in turn driven by information and public perception. Wars can be won on the battlefield through the use of blunt military force, but ultimately lost through lack …
Censorship in Contemporary Russian Journalism in the Age of the War Against Terrorism: A Historical Perspective
The Russian mass media system has experienced tremendous change since the Soviet era. It has been argued that some similarities still exist between the old Soviet system and the new post-Soviet media, such as the practice of self-censorship. Pressure has been mounting on the mass media's level of editorial freedom since the late Yeltsin era, beginning with a raft of new laws introduced under the guise of keeping the media ‘honest’. One contempora…
Translator's Note
Translator's Note Greg Simon (bio) Our first introduction to the Cuban poet Gastón Baquero came on the luxurious AVE "bullet train" between Madrid and Seville, as it sped back to Atocha Station in the early evening of July 5, 1999. Steven F. White and I had spent a fabulous, productive but very hot day in Seville, a rich and sensuous city, not unlike Baquero's poems, of extreme density, complex, narrow passageways, and astonishing reservoirs of e…
The River
The River Gastón Baquero (bio) Translated by Greg Simon (bio) and Steven F. White (bio) I've spent sixty years on the banks of a river. Only those who are living there can see it. People heading toward the western market looked at us with fear. They don't understand why the dampness would cling to our clothing, or how we'd reel in those fish for them, the color of blood oranges, from the invisible water. One day a man fell in, and did not reappea…
Homage to Jean Cocteau
Homage to Jean Cocteau Gastón Baquero (bio), Greg Simon (bio), and Steven F. White (bio) Il vous faudrait mourir pour joindre les deux boust. —Jean Cocteau, on the death of Eluard The rope dancer, crossing at the apex of the circus, astonishes his audience. People can't believe how he feels his way past mirrors, pleading for keys in order to get across that other, tenser, more perilous wire. On each side, angels dressed as harlequins support him,…
Hands
Hands Gastón Baquero (bio) Translated by Greg Simon (bio) and Steven F. White (bio) Are you blind to the fact that God gave you those hands? I'm asking you again. —Vicente Huidobro I would like to cut off your hands with a golden saw. Or perhaps it would be best to leave them alone And enclose your body in a wall of cement, With only two exact holes For you to stick out your hands and flap them Like a dove's wings or like prisoners of an implacab…
Adam in Paradise
Adam in Paradise Gastón Baquero (bio) Translated by Greg Simon (bio) and Steven F. White (bio) Adam takes his very first stroll alone with the origin of wind in his hair, destroying empty space, giving human breath to stars and desire to all metals. Now the universe is a Sabian garden that sings, a perfumed place that turns the ground into earth, the air into wind, expanding the light to unveil desire. Where burning lava once burst into flame, th…
Fourth Generation Warfare and The Clash of Civilizations
This article looks at the nature of Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW), and how theories such as the ‘clash of civilizations’ impact upon this type of warfare. The ‘new’ ways in which wars are waged, and their success (or failure) is measured, are strongly influenced by political processes in turn driven by information and public perception. Wars can be won on the battlefield through the use of blunt military force, but ultimately lost through lack …
Attempting to Re-brand the Branded: Russia’s International Image in the 21st Century
The way in which international relations are being conducted in the 21st century is evolving from the earlier reliance on government to government communications and the use of hard power in order to achieve policy objectives. Currently there is a rush by countries around the world to build up their soft power potential and use attraction as a persuasion and means to attain their goals, Russia being one of these countries. This article focuses on…
Crises in Russia: Contemporary Management Policy and Practice From a Historical Perspective
The International Crisis Group and the manufacturing and communicating of crises
The International Crisis Group (icg) has the motto ‘working to prevent conflict worldwide’. As an organisation the icg occupies a very specific niche role, which is related to crises of a political nature, specifically armed conflict. While the icg employs a negative understanding of crisis, the academic definition of what a crisis may constitute is broader, as it can actually represent an opportunity for some actors. This article, written from a…
Aspects of Putin's appeal to international publics
President Vladimir Putin of Russia is in the centre stage of global reporting currently, mostly characterized in a negative sense. In Russia he is riding a wave of political popularity in his handl
Russian media and censorship: A means or an end
An underlying motive of the paper is to explore the question, is censorship a means or an end? The initial point is that there is a wide understanding and definition of censorship, with many various forms and means. A contradiction that emerges is by law censorship is forbidden in Russia, but there are ways and means of trying to muzzle media and journalists. Something that does emerge is the picture of the perceived importance of media in shapin…
Michael S. Gorham, After newspeak: Language culture and politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin
Michael S. Gorham, After newspeak: language culture and politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 57(3-4), pp. 317–318
Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries
Politics of Security Sector Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for the European Union's Global Role
The Politics of Security Sector Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for the European Union's Global Role
Crisis Management Challenges in Kaliningrad
Crisis Management Challenges in Kaliningrad captures the evolving nature of the types of crises faced by a society as it transforms and evolves. Once the westernmost bastion of the Soviet Union and ...
Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries
The increasing significance and visibility of relationships between religion and public arenas and institutions following the fall of communism in Europe provide the core focus of this fascinating
Islamic extremism and the war for hearts and minds
This article seeks to explore the extremist publications Inspire (Al Qaeda) and Dabiq (Islamic State) English-language editions, to deconstruct the information in order to see how they attempt to appeal to publics in the Western world. Four issues of each are examined and reveal a number of similarities in approach. The emphasis of the communication is via a negative political campaign against the West and its allies, rather than a comprehensive …
The impact of social media and citizen journalism on mainstream Russian news
This article seeks to address the impact of social media and citizen journalism on mainstream Russian news by asking those engaged directly or indirectly in the field of professional journalism for their opinions and perceptions. It seeks to answer is there any kind of discernible effect so far, and if so, if this influence consolidated. In order to reach these questions, it is essential to understand the role and nature of news in Russia, as wel…
Stability and Change in Putin's Political Image During the 2000 and 2012 Presidential Elections: Putin 1.0 and Putin 2.0
There has been a lot of research done on “Western” politicians and political systems with regard to political marketing. But what about other countries, especially those that possess a different political standard? This article seeks to address one particular Russian politician: Vladimir Putin. He rose from obscurity to become Russia's second president (after Boris Yeltsin). Two presidential elections form the focus of attention, 2000 Putin, V. (…
The Politics and Complexities of Crisis Management in Ukraine: A Historical Perspective
Carnage and Connectivity: Landmarks in the Decline of Conventional Military Power by David Betz
Reviewed by: Carnage and Connectivity: Landmarks in the Decline of Conventional Military Power by David Betz Greg Simons (bio) Carnage and Connectivity: Landmarks in the Decline of Conventional Military Power. By David Betz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 264. $55. David Betz, a reader in warfare in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, has crafted a thorough and captivating book on the implications of connectivity…
The interaction of journalism and public relations in Russia: A self-perception
There is an increasing amount written on the decline of professional journalism around the world. One of the factors that are used to illustrate the decline of journalism is the interaction and collaboration between journalists and public relations (PR) practitioners in the production of mass media news content. On a theoretical and conceptual level, the aims and goals of the two professions are quite different, even though there are a number of …
Brand Isis: Interactions of the Tangible and Intangible Environments
This article investigates how the infamous terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) uses branding and political marketing as means to increase their intangible value and assets in order to influence their tangible (operational) capacities. In order to investigate the logic of a terrorist organization as a political actor a perspective of political communication is applied as a means to understand more clearly the propaganda of the word and the…
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