Selling terror: a multidimensional analysis of the Islamic State's recruitment propaganda
In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 194-218
ISSN: 1035-7718
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In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 194-218
ISSN: 1035-7718
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In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 194-218
ISSN: 1465-332X
In: Global policy: gp, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 315-325
ISSN: 1758-5899
AbstractDominant orthodoxies within the study of terrorism have developed and promoted a strategic understanding of terrorism which has, in effect, reinforced the very conflict it seeks to explain. In response, this article develops the challenge of critical terrorism studies to propose a new strategic approach to terrorism. It posits that, while unable to achieve a Clausewitzian victory over the state per se, terrorism is able to politically paralyse the state's overwhelming power by shifting the moral horizons of that state's constituency. We explore two mutually reinforcing mechanisms by which terrorism achieves this objective and explore a number of strategic policy implications of each. This new approach is needed as current approaches misrepresent the challenge the global community currently faces, creating a self‐perpetuating loop of conflict and grievance which promises no end to terrorist violence.