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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ajit MaanPublisher: University Press of America Imprint: University Press of America Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780761864981ISBN 10: 0761864989 Pages: 86 Publication Date: 16 December 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. 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 ReferencesReviewsBoth 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 Author InformationAjit Maan, Ph.D. is a security and defense policy analyst and a specialist in narrative strategies in radicalization processes. She is faculty at Union Institute and University's Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program as well as George Mason University's Center for Narrative Conflict Resolution, and is member of The Brain Trust of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative at Arizona State University. She is the author of Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self, Counter-Terrorism: Narrative Strategies, and Co-Editor of Soft Power on Hard Problems: Strategic Influence in Irregular Warfare. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Strategy Bridge, Small Wars Journal, Real Clear Defense, Stars and Stripes, The Indian Defense Review, Indian Military Review, Defense and Intelligence Norway, and other policy and military strategy journals. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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