
Projecting the Foreign propaganda on the Georgian Politics
Author(s) -
Maia Urushadze
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ante portas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2353-6306
DOI - 10.33674/220194
Subject(s) - ideology , state (computer science) , politics , sovereignty , georgian , political economy , political science , rhetoric , civilization , sociology , radicalization , law , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
From 2016, the powerful and permanent ideological impact of the Russianmessages on the global community is perceived as one of the most importantchallenges for the western civilization at the beginning of the 21st century. Itis without a doubt that the challenge is more acute for the so-called “youngdemocracies”. Georgia is considered to be one of such states. Thus, we havedecided to use Georgia as the example to discuss the general essenceof propaganda, the mechanisms of its use, the level of resistance by the localsocieties towards it and the influence that this phenomenon can have on asmall country. There is no doubt that the success of the propagandist attackson the sovereignty of a state directly depends on the level of trust of the widelayers of the society towards the governmental structures of the target state.The higher the level of mistrust, the more successful is the propagandistcampaign conducted against a state, and vice versa: the higher the level ofadequacy between the government and society, stronger the society is inwithstanding the propagandist attacks. In case of Georgia, the ideologicalframe of the Georgian society is saturated by the mix of the right-conservativeideas with the left-socialist directions, where all the narratives of outsidepolitical actors definitely find their support. Based on this, we can supposethat their rhetoric places the society at the risk of negative radicalization