Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives - Hardcover

Sood, Vikram

 
9789353579517: Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9353579511 ISBN 13: 9789353579517
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2020

Synopsis

In The Ultimate Goal, Vikram Sood, former chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), explains 'the narrative' and how a country's ability to construct, sustain and control narratives, at home and abroad, enhances its strength and position. Intelligence agencies invariably play a critical role in this, an often-indispensable tool of statecraft.

A 'narrative' may not necessarily be based on truth, but it does need to be plausible, have a meaning and create a desired perception. During most of the twentieth century, intelligence agencies helped shape narratives to their countries' agendas through literature, history, drama, art, music and cinema. Today, social media has become crucial to manipulating, countering or disrupting narratives, with its ability to spread fake news disinformation, and provoke reactions.

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About the Author

Vikram Sood, a career intelligence officer for thirty-one years who retired in March 2003 after heading the R&AW, is currently adviser at the Observer Research Foundation, an independent public-policy think tank based in New Delh

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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers India
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9353579511
ISBN 13 
9789353579517
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
304