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Terrorist recruitment, propaganda and branding : selling terror online (2022)
Book
Kruglova, A. (2022). Terrorist recruitment, propaganda and branding : selling terror online. UK: Routledge

This book analyses the marketing techniques that terrorist organisations employ to encourage people to adopt their ideology and become devoted supporters. The book’s central thesis is that due to the development of digital technologies and social... Read More about Terrorist recruitment, propaganda and branding : selling terror online.

“For God, for Tsar and for the Nation : authenticity in the Russian Imperial Movement’s propaganda” (2021)
Journal Article
Kruglova, A. (2021). “For God, for Tsar and for the Nation : authenticity in the Russian Imperial Movement’s propaganda”. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2021.1990826

This paper will examine how extremist organizations manage to present themselves as credible actors in the eyes of potential supporters on social media. This paper will address this question by exploring the role of authenticity in strategic narrativ... Read More about “For God, for Tsar and for the Nation : authenticity in the Russian Imperial Movement’s propaganda”.

'Does peacekeeping deter terrorism?' (2020)
Journal Article
Kruglova, A. (2020). 'Does peacekeeping deter terrorism?'. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 14(1), 50-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/17467586.2020.1821070

This article examines the effect of the presence of UN peacekeeping forces on the scale of domestic terrorist violence in civil war-torn countries. By employing matching and regression analysis, I explore two samples: one contains information about c... Read More about 'Does peacekeeping deter terrorism?'.

“I will tell you a story about Jihad” : ISIS’s propaganda and narrative advertising (2020)
Journal Article
Kruglova, A. (2020). “I will tell you a story about Jihad” : ISIS’s propaganda and narrative advertising. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 44(2), 115-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1799519

This article further broadens the understanding of ISIS propaganda and its effectiveness by looking at the group’s social media through the prism of marketing. The group was found to rely on a narrative type of advertising while creating its propagan... Read More about “I will tell you a story about Jihad” : ISIS’s propaganda and narrative advertising.