The Man and the Message: The World According to Bin Laden (review article)

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1. See http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?PageID = 814.

2. Although Marc Sageman has done excellent work in exploding the myths of common factors driving radicalisation. See his Understanding Terror Networks. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

3. See Douglas Walton, The Place of Emotion in Argument. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.

4. Akbar S. Ahmed, Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society. New York: Routledge, 2002, p. 22.

5. Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy, Politics and Propaganda: Weapons of Mass Seduction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004, p. 200.

6. Perry Anderson, ‘Russia's Managed Democracy’, London Review of Books, 25 January 2007.

7. Tony Blair, “A Battle for Global Values”, Foreign Affairs, 86, 1 (January 2007), pp. 79–90.

8. A point made in Michael Gove's Celsius 7/7. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006.

9. Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism. London: Atlantic, 2005.

10. Edward Said, Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.

11. The communication challenge has been explored in detail by Steve Masty in The Muslim and the Microphone — Miscommunications in the War on Terror. London: Social Affairs Unit, 2006.

12. See George Packer, “Knowing the Enemy: Can Social Scientists Redefine the ‘War on Terror’?”, New Yorker, 18 December 2006.

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Alexander Evans

Alexander Evans is a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Asian Affairs. The views expressed in this article are his own and do not represent government policy.