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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Intro -- List o f Figures and Table -- On Intelligence -- 1 ACN: Theory, Methodology, Method and Object of Research -- From discourse to narratives -- Power, ideology and difference -- Securitization -- ACN: from methodology to method -- The complex intelligence problem of Al Qaeda -- Events and text selection -- 2 Al Qaeda Narrative -- Introduction -- Bin Laden's base -- Shapes of Al Qaeda -- Bin Laden's speech in 1996 -- World Islamic Front declaration 1998 -- Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and US missile strikes -- The foiled millennium plots -- The USS Cole |
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Securitization, power and identity in the Al Qaeda narrative -- Reflection -- 3 US Institutional Terrorism Narrative on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda -- Introduction -- Early efforts to put Bin Laden on the national security agenda -- US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania -- Managing the threat of terrorism -- The attack on the USS Cole -- Power, securitization and identity in the US institutional terrorism narrative -- Reflection -- 4 Critical Terrorism Narrative -- Introduction -- Bin Laden: extremist or businessman? -- Bin Laden as a wedge -- Disagreement among followers |
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Pragmatism: shifting focus -- The dust of the attacks on US embassies in Africa and Arab fury -- Critique on US Framings, Sanctions and Missile Strikes -- The murderous attempted sinking of the USS Cole -- Critiquing US and Al Qaeda securitization efforts -- Reflection -- 5 Conclusion -- Introduction -- Analysis by contrasting narratives -- ACN: a contribution to intelligence studies -- Reflexivism and critical intelligence studies -- Selected Bibliography -- Appendix (online) -- Index |
| Summary |
This book sets out a new analytic methodology: analysis by contrasting narratives (ACN), which states that defining an enemy and attempting to counter threats can contribute to the manifestation of that threat. Peter de Werd applies ACN to the problem the US faced in understanding and responding to the phenomenon of Al Qaeda in the 1990s. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Military intelligence -- United States.
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Military intelligence. |
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United States. |
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Intelligence service -- United States.
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Electronic books.
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Intelligence service. |
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Electronic books. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Werd, Peter de. US intelligence and Al Qaeda. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] 9781474478083 (OCoLC)1225061293 |
| ISBN |
9781474478083 (electronic book) |
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1474478085 (electronic book) |
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1474478069 |
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9781474478069 |
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9781474478090 Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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1474478093 |
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