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-2026-003 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