https://psssj.eu/index.php/ojsdata/issue/feedPolitical Science and Security Studies Journal2025-12-31T00:00:00+02:00Ivantkachivan9@gmail.comOpen Journal Systems<p>The <em data-start="188" data-end="236">Political Science and Security Studies Journal</em> is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal that provides a pluralistic platform for advancing theoretical and empirical research in security studies, defense policy, and geopolitics. The journal focuses on contemporary challenges to national, regional, and global security, including military strategy, defense governance, international security architectures, hybrid and asymmetric threats, and the political economy of security. In support of interdisciplinary inquiry, the journal also welcomes contributions from related fields such as political science, international relations, economics, law, sociology, and data-driven security analysis.</p>https://psssj.eu/index.php/ojsdata/article/view/210National Interests as a Mechanism for Formulating Intelligence Tasks2025-11-24T20:20:53+02:00Yurii Semeniuksnik71083@gmail.com<p>The article provides a comprehensive analysis of changes in the geopolitical and geo-economic environment resulting from the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and their impact on the transformation of the international security landscape. The essence of national interests is examined as a multidimensional category shaped by historical, political, economic, and civilizational factors, and their role in the development of a geocivilizational strategy of the state is substantiated. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of approaches to the interpretation of national interests within realist and liberal-idealist paradigms of international relations. Key trends in the formation of a new security architecture are identified under conditions of intensified strategic competition among major global actors, the escalation of hybrid threats, and the acceleration of the technological revolution, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence. The study demonstrates that national interests function as a fundamental mechanism for shaping intelligence tasks, determining priorities, instruments, and directions of intelligence activities in contemporary conditions. The article concludes that the profound transformation of the global security environment necessitates a reassessment of the role of intelligence services in the emerging international order.</p>2026-01-03T00:00:00+02:00Copyright (c) 2026 Yurii Semeniukhttps://psssj.eu/index.php/ojsdata/article/view/212An Investigative History of Russian Speech Manipulation Strategies in Republican Discourse2025-12-08T20:38:12+02:00Aaron Helmbrechthelmbrecht@gwu.edu<p><span data-contrast="auto">Donald Trump’s sophisticated use of speech manipulation strategies has inspired numerous research studies. O.I. Nazarenko and O.Ye. Nesterenko (2023) looked beyond Donald Trump at the Republican Party at large and found a pattern of manipulative effect in Republican discourse supporting Russia in the Russian-Ukrainian war. This raises many important questions for researchers. What is the political motivation for Republicans to side with Russia against Ukraine? How did this come to be? To answer these questions, this article presents the first history of Russian speech manipulation strategies in Republican discourse. The investigation traced the origin to conservative principles introduced by William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Pragmatic analysis and critical discourse analysis of Republican discourse identified manipulative strategies and techniques aligning with Russian thinking of reflexive control connected across speakers and generations. This exploratory study supports the need for further speech manipulation research of Republican discourse from a historical perspective.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>2026-01-03T00:00:00+02:00Copyright (c) 2026 Aaron Helmbrecht