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Strategic Communication as Narrative Governance in Counter-Terrorism: An Adaptive Framework

Stratejik İletişimin Anlatı Yönetişimi Olarak Terörle Mücadelede Kullanımı: Uyarlanabilir Bir Model

Eda Akgün Sakızcı0000-0002-7606-1067
Tolga Balcı0000-0003-1179-1381
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2026-09-30
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It further proposes an adaptive six-stage model designed to support institutional coordination, evaluation, organizational learning, and communicative resilience in democratic counter-terrorism contexts.

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Objective & Hypothesis:In contemporary conflict environments, terrorism operates not only through physical violence but also through communicative performance designed to shape perceptions, polarize publics, and undermine institutional legitimacy.
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Key Findings & Data:This study reconceptualizes strategic communication in defense against terrorism as narrative governance: an institutionalized, cyclical, and adaptive management of meaning in contested information environments.
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⚙️Variables:Strategic Communication · Countering Violent Extremism · Narrative Governance

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In contemporary conflict environments, terrorism operates not only through physical violence but also through communicative performance designed to shape perceptions, polarize publics, and undermine institutional legitimacy. This study reconceptualizes strategic communication in defense against terrorism as narrative governance: an institutionalized, cyclical, and adaptive management of meaning in contested information environments. The study proposes a stage-based adaptive framework consisting of strategic orientation and threat framing, audience mapping and segmentation, narrative construction and meaning stabilization, multi-platform implementation and media synchronization, discursive impact assessment, and feedback-driven recalibration for institutional learning. The article contributes to the strategic communication and security governance literature by conceptually integrating strategic communication, narrative theory, securitization, and institutional governance within a unified framework of narrative governance. It further proposes an adaptive six-stage model designed to support institutional coordination, evaluation, organizational learning, and communicative resilience in democratic counter-terrorism contexts.

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Günümüz çatışma ortamlarında terörizm yalnızca fiziksel şiddet yoluyla değil, aynı zamanda algıları şekillendirmeyi, toplumsal kutuplaşmayı artırmayı ve kurumsal meşruiyeti zayıflatmayı amaçlayan iletişimsel performanslar aracılığıyla da etkisini göstermektedir. Bu çalışma, terörle mücadelede stratejik iletişimi, tartışmalı bilgi ortamlarında anlamın kurumsallaşmış, döngüsel ve uyarlanabilir biçimde yönetilmesini ifade eden anlatı yönetişimi kavramı çerçevesinde yeniden ele almaktadır. Araştırma, stratejik iletişim, anlatı teorisi, güvenlikleştirme ve kurumsal yönetişim literatürlerini anlatı yönetişimi çerçevesinde kavramsal olarak bütünleştirerek stratejik iletişim ve güvenlik yönetişimi literatürüne katkı sunmaktadır. Ayrıca demokratik terörle mücadele bağlamında kurumsal koordinasyonu, değerlendirmeyi, örgütsel öğrenmeyi ve iletişimsel dayanıklılığı desteklemeyi amaçlayan uyarlanabilir altı aşamalı bir model önermektedir.

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Sakızcı, E. A., Balcı, T. (2026). Strategic Communication as Narrative Governance in Counter-Terrorism: An Adaptive Framework. Fiscaoeconomia, Volume: 10 Issue: 2. https://doi.org/10.25295/fsecon.1935142

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