Internarrative Identity

Ajit Maan, Ph.D. is a security and defense policy analyst and a specialist in narrative strategies in radicalization processes. She is faculty at Union Institute and University's Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program as well as George Mason University's Center for Narrative Conflict Resolution, and is member of The Brain Trust of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative at Arizona State University. She is the author of Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self, Counter-Terrorism: Narrative Strategies, and Co-Editor of Soft Power on Hard Problems: Strategic Influence in Irregular Warfare. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Strategy Bridge, Small Wars Journal, Real Clear Defense, Stars and Stripes, The Indian Defense Review, Indian Military Review, Defense and Intelligence Norway, and other policy and military strategy journals.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 AcknowledgmentsChapter 4 IntroductionChapter 5 Chapter I: Narrative IdentityChapter 6 Chapter II: Fault LinesChapter 7 Chapter III: Comparative AnalysisChapter 8 Chapter IV: Internarrative IdentityChapter 9 Chapter V: Repression and Narrative UnityChapter 10 NotesChapter 11 BibliographyChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 About the Author

Internarrative Identity confronts us with deep questions about personal identity and about how we are to trace the significance of a person's life . . . urges us to rethink the range of ways available to us for making sense of who we are and how we ought to live.