University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Better than the Truth: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation”

Kelly Greenhill, Professor, Tufts University

“Better than the Truth: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation”

Discussant: Jessica Sciarone, PhD candidate, Political Science

Kelly Greenhill holds joint positions as a professor of political science and international relations at Tufts University and a Resident Senior Research Fellow and visiting professor at MIT, where she also serves as Director of the MIT-Seminar XXI Program. She is currently revising for publication a new book, a cross-national mixed methods study that explores the influence of rumors, conspiracy theories, propaganda, so-called “fake news” and other forms of extra-factual information (EFI) on international politics.