The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives - Couverture rigide

Sood, Vikram

 
9789353579517: The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives
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ISBN 10 : 9353579511 ISBN 13 : 9789353579517
Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2020

Synopsis

In The Ultimate Goal, Vikram Sood, former chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), explains 'the narrative' and how a country's ability to construct, sustain and control narratives, at home and abroad, enhances its strength and position. Intelligence agencies invariably play a critical role in this, an often-indispensable tool of statecraft.

A 'narrative' may not necessarily be based on truth, but it does need to be plausible, have a meaning and create a desired perception. During most of the twentieth century, intelligence agencies helped shape narratives favourable to their countries' agendas through literature, history, drama, art, music and cinema. Today, social media has become crucial to manipulating, countering or disrupting narratives, with its ability to spread fake news disinformation, and provoke reactions.

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À propos de l?auteur

Vikram Sood, a career intelligence officer for thirty-one years who retired in March 2003 after heading the R&AW, is currently adviser at the Observer Research Foundation, an independent public-policy think tank based in New Delhi. He writes regularly on security, foreign relations and strategic issues in journals and newspapers and has contributed chapters related to security, China, intelligence and India's neighbourhood to books published in the last few years. His book, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief's Insights into Espionage, was published in 2018.

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Éditeur
HarperCollins Publishers India
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9353579511
ISBN 13 
9789353579517
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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