GP-2026-018 — April 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19164275 Abstract Existing practitioner frameworks for assessing vulnerability to political violence are diagnostic at the wrong level. VERA-2R, ERG22+, and behavioural risk tools assess the individual who is already showing precursor signs, or the content that is already circulating — they begin, structurally, where the problem has already advanced. The Genealogical Translation Framework operates upstream: it trans

GP-2026-017 — April 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19164174 Abstract Psychological capture architectures do not arrive in target environments fully formed. Mapping what configurations persist — their installation across historical time, their structural recurrence across ideological ruptures — establishes the processual question rather than answering it. The five-step sequence codified in this paper describes how latent configurations move from installation to weapo

GP-2026-016 | April 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19161286 ABSTRACT Existing frameworks for terrorism detection, crime prevention, and hybrid warfare assessment share a structural miscalibration that the fifth wave deliberately exploits. Complexity — the defining characteristic of fifth-wave extremism — is not ideological confusion but a deliberately engineered strategy of analytical evasion whose logic has remained unexplained because it requires all three of its

GP-2026-015 | April 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19161177 ABSTRACT Counter-narrative and counter-disinformation programmes have failed systematically against four of the most consequential adversarial formations of the past half-century — not because they were underfunded or poorly designed, but because they were operating at the wrong level. Recognition rather than persuasion is the operative success criterion of political-warfare operations that have achieved d

GP-2026-014 | April 2026 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19161031 Author: Iliyan Kuzmanov Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov ABSTRACT Adversarial mobilisation exploits psychological substrate, not ideological novelty. Populations carry pre-installed cognitive-affective configurations — architectures of identity, threat, grievance, and sacred necessity — that persist as an enduring substrate beneath continuous surface ideological mutation. Cross-ideological occupant substitut

GP-2026-013 | March 2026 Author: Iliyan Kuzmanov Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19070816 ABSTRACT Adversarial mobilisation succeeds not by constructing psychology from zero but by activating cognitive-affective configurations that populations carry as historically installed substrates — architectures of identity, threat, grievance, and sacred necessity that persist beneath continuous surface ideological mutation. Focused Genealogical Configur

GP-2026-012 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007846 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Anticipatory intelligence names a structural gap that all historically calibrated detection systems share. Their accuracy within familiar distributions is genuine, institutionally earned, and operationally valuable — and it cannot extend to configurations that have not yet produced detectable surface signatures. That interval, between when threateni

GP-2026-011 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007711 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Cognitive monoculture in artificial intelligence systems is not primarily a workforce diversity problem. It is a structural design outcome with predictable security consequences. When training data, evaluation benchmarks, and development teams all reflect the same cognitive profile, the resulting system does not merely underrepresent alternative ana

GP-2026-010 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007646 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Pattern recognition systems — the algorithmic architectures that underpin modern machine learning — achieve their extraordinary analytical power through a mechanism that simultaneously defines their structural limitation. Trained on historical distributions, these systems identify known categories with high confidence and speed. What they cannot do

GP-2026-009 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007470 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Cognitive suppression is not a failure of institutional design. Across documented historical contexts — from classical Athens to Soviet science to contemporary organisational life — institutions suppress the cognitive profiles they most need through the same mechanism they use to select for competence: the advancement criteria that identify reliable

GP-2026-008 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007387 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Adaptive persona — the capacity to shift social presentation across contexts — is a defining feature of identity architecture, yet its psychological costs remain undertheorised. Drawing on Goffman's dramaturgical model, Hochschild's analysis of emotional labour, Higgins's self-discrepancy theory, and Winnicott's account of the false self, identity p

GP-2026-007 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007222 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Cognitive inertia is not the mind's failure to engage with the world honestly. It is the mind performing, with considerable precision, the function it was built to perform: protecting the coherence of an existing cognitive architecture at minimum metabolic cost. At its centre lies the reconstruction threshold: the point at which the cost of maintain

GP-2026-006 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19007024 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Cognitive capital — the fluid, non-linear mental capacity that drives genuine analytical performance — remains systematically undervalued in organisations designed to measure something else. The frameworks dominant in education, hiring, and organisational advancement were built to assess performance within existing structures, not capacity to exceed

GP-2026-005 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19006871 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Ideological conformity within institutions has long been attributed to coercion, propaganda, or the calculated suppression of dissent. At its centre lies a different mechanism — the advancement filter — through which institutions produce genuine conviction without requiring direct access to individual minds. Wherever advancement is conditional on de

GP-2026-004 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19006739 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Belief persistence under disconfirmation — the maintenance of conviction against accumulating contrary evidence — represents one of the most consequential and least examined phenomena in social psychology and political analysis. At its centre lies the concept of load-bearing belief: a conviction whose revision would require simultaneous restructurin

GP-2026-003 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19006567 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Structural persistence in political violence presents an analytical problem that ideological comparison alone cannot resolve: how do four identical configurations — identity fusion, grievance inversion, sacralised violence, and cosmic dualism — appear across movements with incompatible ideologies, no organisational connection, and no shared intellect

GP-2026-002 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19005891 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Show trial psychology presents a problem that neither coercion nor performance adequately resolves: how did accused party members, subjected to no physical torture in many documented cases, produce confessions whose psychological markers were indistinguishable from genuine conviction? At its centre lies manufactured sincerity: the condition in which

GP-2026-001 March 2026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18999473 Author: Angel Analytical Team Editor: Iliyan Kuzmanov Abstract Historical trauma does not merely wound societies — it deposits cognitive structures that subsequent political actors inherit and activate. Nowhere is this more documented than in the Bulgarian corridor, where 822,588 citizens were compelled to adopt Slavic names between 1984 and 1989 with administrative efficiency and minimal resistance. Understand