Neil Krishan Aggarwal: 3 books

Book cover of The Taliban's Virtual Emirate

The Taliban's Virtual Emirate

The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community

by Neil Krishan Aggarwal, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

Applying cutting-edge psychiatric theories to an analysis of online Taliban literature in four languages, Neil Krishan Aggarwal constructs a game-changing narrative of the organization's broad appeal and worldview. Aggarwal, a cultural psychiatrist, focuses on the Taliban's creation of culture,...
Book cover of Mental Health in the War on Terror

Mental Health in the War on Terror

Culture, Science, and Statecraft

by Neil Krishan Aggarwal, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015

Neil Krishan Aggarwal's timely study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism. In the process, the state has used psychiatrists and psychologists to furnish knowledge on undesirable populations,...
Book cover of Media Persuasion in the Islamic State
by Neil Krishan Aggarwal, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019

Since the declaration of the War on Terror in 2001, militant groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have used the internet to disseminate their message and persuade people to commit violence. While many books have studied their operational strategies and battlefield tactics, Media Persuasion...
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