Narrative Delusion : Strategic Scripts and Violent Islamism in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen
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/ Benedict Wilkinson
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Department of War Studies, King's College, University of London, London, England
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2015.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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265p.
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Code E.Dissertation: 132
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مدخل: مصر
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DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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Ph.D
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War Studies
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This PhD explores the strategic decision-making processes of violent Islamist movements in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The primary aim of this research is to investigate how these organisations formulate and select strategy. The research constructs an interdisciplinary approach to decision-making based on strategic scripts, which are viewed as cognitive structures that allow strategists to form expectations about how a sequence of events might unfold, enabling a potentially successful course of action to be selected. The research argues that there are a limited number of scripts available to violent Islamists: survival, power play, mobilisation, provocation, de-legitimisation, attrition, co-operation and de-mobilisation.