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Book SynopsisCounter-Terrorism makes a connection, unique to terrorism studies, between the mechanisms of colonizing narratives and psychological warfare aimed at recruitment. There is an urgent need to understand the narrative tactics of terrorist recruitment and an equal if not greater need to destabilize and exploit the weaknesses of those narratives.
Trade ReviewBoth in terms of its political urgency and the larger questions it raises between narrative and conflict, this work awakens a sense of: why hasn't this been talked about before? -- Cheyney Ryan, senior fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
This excellent work should be required reading for all involved in the non-kinetic end of counter-terrorism. After its read, we MUST employ these lessons as a part of a comprehensive multi-national effort that effectively supports the counter-terrorism effort. -- Paul Cobaugh, Information Operations, U.S. Army
In a very real way, Dr. Maan has pushed the boundaries of colonial/post-colonial theory on deconstructing dominant and coercive discourses by enacting a counter-terrorist narrative and by proposing a new American narrative. -- M. Elise Marubbio, author of Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Seduction and Other Narrative Dangers Chapter 2: Calls to Terror and Other Weak Narratives Chapter 3: Deconstructing Pathologizing Narratives: Questioning the Truth Status of Constructed Ideas Chapter 4: Psychological Warfare: Colonizing Narratives as Recruitment Strategy Chapter 5: Post-Colonial Practices and Narrative Nomads Chapter 6: Beyond Common Ground References
