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Adversarial framing: President Bashar al-Assad’s depiction of the armed Syrian opposition
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dc.contributor.author | Merz, Fabien | |
dc.coverage.spatial | 15 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-30T14:33:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-30T14:33:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-06-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Merz, F. (2014). Adversarial Framing: President Bashar al-Assad’s Depiction of the Armed Syrian Opposition. Journal Of Terrorism Research, 5(2), pp. 30-44. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2049-7040 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/4927 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper evaluates how Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is framing his opponents in the context of the Syrian civil war. The question is addressed by conducting a qualitative thematic analysis of 13 interviews he gave to international television news networks and newspapers between March and November 2013. It is found that Al-Assad consequently labels the armed opposition as “terrorists” preponderantly composed of groups affiliated to Al-Qaeda. The “terrorists” are framed as posing a threat to the region as well as to international security on a global scale. Furthermore, Al-Assad denies the armed opposition its Syrian grassroots by portraying them as outside aggressors fighting for foreign interests. They are also depicted as “enemies of the Syrian people”, responsible for all the atrocities and human suffering committed during the Syrian civil war. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Terrorism Research | en_US |
dc.rights | This is an open access article published in Journal of Terrorism Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ | |
dc.subject | Syria | en_US |
dc.subject | Syrian civil war | en_US |
dc.subject | Bashar al-Assad | en_US |
dc.subject | framing | en_US |
dc.subject | adversarial framing | en_US |
dc.subject | Syrian opposition | en_US |
dc.subject | terrorism | en_US |
dc.subject | thematic network analysis | en_US |
dc.subject.lcc | HV6431 | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Civil war -- Syria | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Assad, Bashar, 1965- | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Opposition (Political science) -- Syria | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Propaganda analysis -- Syria | en_US |
dc.title | Adversarial framing: President Bashar al-Assad’s depiction of the armed Syrian opposition | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en_US |
dc.publicationstatus | Published | en_US |
dc.status | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.881 | en |
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