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Item Disinformation on Youtube: A Dataset of Youtube Comments on Videos Related to Claims Made by Trump and Vance on Haitian Immigrants(2025-02-12)The YouTube Disinformation Comments Corpus provides 71,025 comments to 23 YouTube videos posted by US news organizations on the false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were stealing and eating neighborhood pets, which was picked up and amplified by the 2024 Republican presidential ticket of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. Additionally, the YouTube Disinformation Comments Corpus features metadata associated with each YouTube video, including video titles, descriptions, transcripts, like counts, and YouTube content tags. This dataset is useful for people studying (1) natural language processing, (2) network textual analysis, (3) the circulation of dis- and misinformation on YouTube; (4) the reception of dis- and misinformation on YouTube; (5) news framing effects on YouTube and (6) public discussions of US immigration. TFIDF analysis is used to provide an overview of the variations across comment data.Item Challenge in the Charcas: Bolivia in the “Global Cold War” Geopolitical Imagination(2024-03-23)Assorted observers of geopolitics have long been dismissive of Bolivia's significance within the international order, regarding it as a marginal "backwater" polity relative to other countries throughout the world and even among South American states. This common characterization of Bolivia's ostensibly wanting importance on the world stage is belied by the extent to which a variety of geostrategists valued the Andean nation's territorial and resource endowments as vital to shifting the balance of power within the Western Hemisphere. In the era spanning from the 1952 Revolution to the 1980 "Cocaine Coup" in Bolivia taking place in the midst of the Cold War, actors associated with multiple foreign powers would undertake interventions by diplomatic, financial, intelligence, and military means in an effort to shape that country's political trajectory to their perceived advantage. These foreign interventionists in Bolivia would include not only those affiliated with the United States (one of the two Cold War superpowers and the primary hegemon of the Western Hemisphere), but also those affiliated with other hemispheric states such as Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, and even extra-hemispheric states such as Israel and South Korea. Among those who played a crucial role in prioritizing and enacting interventions in Bolivia were individuals as varied as John Foster Dulles, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Lewis A. Tambs, Golbery do Couto e Silva, Bo Hi Pak, and Guillermo Suárez Mason, several of whom described Bolivia as the "Charcas Heartland," adapting the geostrategic thought of Halford Mackinder regarding the Eurasian continent to South American circumstances.