Arguing Counterterrorism

<p>This book offers a multifaceted analytical account of counterterrorism argumentative speech. </p><p>Traditionally existing scholarship in this field of research has taken a selective focus on issues and actors concentrating mainly on US state discourse after 9/11. However this approach ignores the fact that there was counterterrorism speech before 9/11 and that there are other countries and other actors who also actively engage in the counterterrorism discursive field both within and outside of the Western world.</p><p>Addressing several thematic chronological and methodological gaps in the current literature <i>Arguing Counterterrorism</i> offers a dynamic perspective on counterterrorism argumentative speech. Over the course of the volume the authors tackle the following key issues: first historical and cultural continuity and change. Second the phenomenology of counterterrorism speech: its nature instrumentalisation implications and interactions between the various actors involved. The third theme is the anatomy of counterterrorism speech; namely its political cultural and linguistic constitutive elements. Employing a multi-disciplinary framework the authors explore these issues through a geographically and historically diverse range of case studies resulting in a book that broadens the perspective of counterterrorism argumentation analysis.</p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies counterterrorism discourse analysis security studies and IR. </p>