Engineering Terror: Daesh’s Media Strategy and Tactics in Recruiting Members from the Western World
Alak Raad is a senior majoring in International Politics, Interested in counter-terrorism, peacebuilding, and child protection in war-torn countries. And pursuing a Certificate in Media and Politics. Thesis Title: Engineering Terror: Daesh’s Media Strategy and Tactics in Recruiting Members from the Western World. This capstone project explores how the internet’s decentralized and unregulated nature has created a virtual battlefield between Daesh and vulnerable youth from the western world. Moreover, it investigates the reasons for Daesh’s overly-produced videos of brutally killing its “enemies” by comparing these videos with one of the first engineers of terror, Vlad III Drăculea, who designed a valley of impaled bodies in response to not winning a face-to-face war with the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. This project also examines theories such as globalization, reversed orientalism, and actor-network theory.
Faculty Mentor: Rory Miller
CMAP E-Portfolio: https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/alak-cmap-e-portfolio/home
