25–26 Jun 2026
''Vasil Levski'' National Military University
Europe/Sofia timezone

Two approaches to seeking public support in addressing challenges in the field of international security

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20m
''Vasil Levski'' National Military University

''Vasil Levski'' National Military University

Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Paper – Oral Presentation Defense and Security Technology

Speaker

Plamen Atanasov ("Vasil Levski" National Military University)

Description

In the contemporary field of international affairs, the China’s economical, geopolitical, and military rise is a significant factor in the challenges of international affairs. The focus of this study falls on the response which these circumstances find in the context of national security in two states of established economical and geopolitical standing. In this scientific framework, international security is situated as the object of the study. The subject of the research is the complex of activities undertaken by governments to build transparency in the public space about their international affairs. The aim of the study is to explore a discovered approach for overcoming the latency of the public opinion, relative to China’s rise. Presented are two principally different policies, which were implemented in the USA and in Russia, in answer of response to the challenge of ‘China’s rise’. The research uses the progress of digital technology, and on this ground realizes a multidisciplinary approach which implements methods in the field of the science for communications, the public diplomacy, and the comparison of open-source data. This whole complex is united in the context of security in an international environment. The analysis of the registered diametrical opposites indicates that the discovered approaches are on the spectral limits of possibilities for managing a state's inner public opinion in a dynamic international environment.

Author

Plamen Atanasov ("Vasil Levski" National Military University)

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