Us Counter-Terrorism Strategy and Al-Qaeda: Signalling and the Terrorist World-View

by Joshua Alexander Geltzer and Joshua A. Geltzer

Book Overview

This book examines the communicative aspects and implications of US counter-terrorist policies towards al-Qaeda.

Recent US counter-terrorist strategy has been largely based upon projecting certain perceptions of America as an actor to those drawn to al-Qaeda, and this book investigates in what ways, and to what extent, US officials believed that the signals sent by what America did and said could influence the behaviour of the terrorist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415664527
• ISBN13: 9780415664523
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"