I have been leading a project with Elad Segev (Tel Aviv University) and Atsushi Tago (Waseda University) on implications of security threats for domestic politics. We have completed a content analysis of newspapers and a simultaneous survey experiment in both Japan and Israel since the beginning of the project in 2019.
One of the goals of the project is establishing techniques to analyze Asian language documents on specific dimensions. We have created a multi-lingual stopwords collection, Marimo, and wrote a paper on Latent Semantic Scaling for this goal. We then applied LSS to Japanese and Hebrew news articles on Iran and North Korea to analyze them in terms of nuclear threats in a new paper.
The paper on North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs is titled, Discursive Diversion: Manipulation of Nuclear Threats by the Conservative Leaders in Japan and Israel. It will take some time for us to publish it in a peer-review journal but I hope that you find the methodology section in the preprint useful.
UPDATE: the paper has been published in International Communication Gazette.
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