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By Wesley Kendall,Joseph M. Siracusa,Kevin Noguchi

ISBN-10: 1442235829

ISBN-13: 9781442235823

Building at the rising box of biopolitics of defense, this learn monograph demonstrates that political speech may be crafted to control segments of the balloting inhabitants who're inherently predisposed to being receptive to definite language. The authors, who come from either political technological know-how and behavioral neuroscience, research how the human mind reacts to expressions of political ideology relating to terrorism. They follow those reactions to precise varieties of political verbal exchange, lots of that are designed to elicit a wanted reaction in growing aid for a policymaker’s time table. by way of evaluating and contrasting various case reports, they exhibit how related acts observed by means of starkly varied political language can create cognitive dissonance within the minds of the voters and impact coverage choices.

Each bankruptcy analyzes the content material of a speech, its assimilation via diverse political teams, and case experiences. for instance, the case of Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile and previous CIA agent chargeable for the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 is tested along that of Mohamed El Megrahi, the Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the bombing of Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 This special learn makes use of new examine in neuropsychology to illustrate how the yank public’s reaction to varied rules on terrorism is manipulated, highlighting the effect of ideological speech relating to terrorism—the “language of terror.”

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