
Brigitte NacosColumbia University | CU · Department of Political Science
Brigitte Nacos
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Two weeks before Election Day 2020, a Yahoo/YouGov survey found that 52 percent of Donald Trump supporters believed that “President Trump is working to dismantle an elite child sex-trafficking ring involving top Democrats.” Thus, more than half of President Trump’s supporters embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory of a global satanic pedophile ring t...
This article adds to earlier research revealing that the American news media did not discharge their responsibility as a watchdog press in the post-9/11 years by failing to scrutinize extreme and unlawful government policies and actions, most of all the decision to invade Iraq based on false information about Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mas...
Focusing on the phenomenon of terrorism in the age of ISIS/ISIL, Terrorism and Counterterrorism investigates this form of political violence in an international and American context and in light of new and historical trends. In this comprehensive and highly readable text, renowned expert Brigitte Nacos clearly defines terrorism's diverse causes, ac...
This study finds that the issue of preventing terrorist attacks has received surprisingly little attention by decision-makers and the news media, and only sporadic interest by pollsters. When it comes to homeland security, how to protect the nation and its people from actual attacks takes a back seat to press coverage of threats and other aspects o...
Terrorists, policy-makers, and terrorism scholars have long assumed that the mere threat of terrorist strikes affects societies that have experienced actual acts of terrorism. For this reason, most definitions of terrorism include the threat of violent political acts against civilians. But so far research has neither validated this conventional wis...
Although women have been among the leaders and followers of terrorist organizations throughout the history of modern terrorism, the mass media typically depict women terrorists as interlopers in an utterly male domain. A comparison of the framing patterns in the news about women in politics and the entrenched stereotypes in the coverage of female t...
Terrorists commit lethal acts of violence in order to realize their goals and advance their causes. They have a mixed record of success. This article explores the question whether the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside of Washington, D.C. were successful from the perspective of bin Laden and the Al Qaed...
Chapter 1 Old or New Ball Game? Mass Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World Part 2 Part I: The Media and Foreign Policy Chapter 3 Declarations of Independence: The Growth of Media Power after the Cold War Chapter 4 Media and Public Sphere without Borders? News Coverage and Power from Kurdistan to Kosovo Chapter 5 New I...
Terrorists are said to seek the attention of the public, the recognition of their grievances, and even respectability and legitimacy. This paper examines the question, to what extent do the mass media facilitate these goals? Analyzing the coverage of the 1985 TWA hostage crisis by three leading U.S. newspapers, we found that the press facilitated t...