The purpose of the article is to study functioning visual narratives Russian propaganda in conditions Russia’s armed war against Ukraine and consider phenomenon context postmodern theories. research methodology based on application method deconstruction, systematically applied texts order reveal hidden meanings. novelty consists revealing peculiarities propaganda, which, fact, made it possible ...

A century ago, the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1922 (Turkish Liberation/Asia Minor Campaign) was reaching its culmination point. The war also fought in pages Press. In this study, we look at characteristics caricatures marshalled effort by three publications. Greek newspaper Skrip, and Turkish satirical magazines Karagöz Güleryüz. We find that most expectations based on semiotics concept intersta...

Who Is the Enemy? We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by engaging in actions against the common enemy. We derive a condition under which the c...

Cyclic outbreaks of defoliating insects devastate forests, but their causes are poorly understood. Outbreak cycles are often assumed to be driven by density-dependent mortality due to natural enemies, because pathogens and predators cause high mortality and because natural-enemy models reproduce fluctuations in defoliation data. The role of induced defenses is in contrast often dismissed, becau...