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Media Persuasion In The Islamic State

Neil Krishan Aggarwal

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Binding: Paper Back

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Language: English

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Drawing upon research in cultural psychiatry, cultural psychology, and psychiatric anthropology, Neil Krishan Aggarwal investigates how the Islamic state has convinced people to engage in violence. Aggarwal offers a definitive analysis of how culture is created, debated, and disseminated within militant organizations like the Islamic state. Since the declaration of the war on terror in 2001, militant groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic state have used the Internet to disseminate their message and persuade people to commit violence. While many books have studied their operational strategies and battlefield tactics, media persuasion in the Islamic state is the first to analyze the culture and Psychology of militant persuasion. Drawing upon decades of research in cultural psychiatry, cultural psychology, and psychiatric anthropology, Neil Krishan Aggarwal investigates how the Islamic state has convinced people to engage in violence since its founding in 2003. Through analysis of hundreds of articles, speeches, videos, songs, and bureaucratic documents in English and Arabic, the book traces how the jihadist Abu musab al-zarqawi created a new culture and Psychology, one that would pit Sunni Muslims against all others after the U.S.-Led invasion of Iraq. Aggarwal tracks how Osama bin Laden and al-zarqawi disagreed over the goal of militancy in jihad before reaching a détente in 2004 and how al-Qaeda in Iraq merged with five other groups to diffuse its militant cultural identity in 2006 before taking advantage of the Syrian Civil war to emerge as the Islamic state. Aggarwal offers a definitive analysis of how culture is created, debated, and disseminated within militant organizations like the Islamic state. Psychiatrists, psychologists, and area-studies experts will find a comprehensive, systematic method for analysing culture and Psychology so they can partner with political scientists, policy makers, and counterterrorism experts in crafting counter-messaging strategies against militants.

Additional Info

Author	Neil Krishan Aggarwal
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Language	English
Binding Type	Paper Back
Non Fiction	History & Politics, Psychology
Indian Author	Yes
ISBN13	9780231801577
SKU	BK 0038426