Literature Reviews 

As an aid to scholars conducting literature reviews on the Global War on Terrorism, I provide here an annotated bibliography of works that address the symbolic construction of terrorism through discourse and subsequent rhetorical interactions. 

This literature review offers one taxonomy and select findings of multi-disciplinary scholarship on the nature and structure of Arab, Muslim, and Islamic communities. The literature suggests four relational stages of identity expression:  as an individual within a familial or kinship group; a citizen in relationship to a nation-state; an affiliate of a political and/or religious movement; and a member of a global community of believers. The vulnerability of individuals seeking belongingness and the operation of communities of violence are also acknowledged.  

This literature review describes the linkages of visual rhetoric to moves within contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism.  To make the discussion more concrete, essays which take as their focal points the genre of photojournalism, the Rosenthal Iwo Jima photo, images of 9/11, and the illustrations of Norman Rockwell receive particular attention.

A review of the literature on terrorist group proclivity toward the acquisition and use of WMD, prepared for the Fund for Peace Threat Convergence Research Program.