Narrative and the making of US national security
"Dominant narratives - from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror - have often served as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past failures and triumphs, and potential futures into a coherent tale, with well-defined characters and plot lines, thes...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2015.
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| Collection: | Cambridge studies in international relations
Volume 138 |
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès sur la plateforme Cambridge University Press Accès sur la plateforme ISTEX (corpus CUP) Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Cambridge University Press - CUP - Corpus Science politique (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Narrative and the making of US national security, Ronald R. Krebs, 2015, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1 vol. (XVI - 387 p.), Cambridge studies in international relations, 978-1-10-750399-1 |
| Résumé: | "Dominant narratives - from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror - have often served as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past failures and triumphs, and potential futures into a coherent tale, with well-defined characters and plot lines, these narratives impart meaning to global events, define the boundaries of legitimate politics, and thereby shape national security policy. However, we know little about why or how such narratives rise and fall. Drawing on insights from diverse fields, Narrative and the Making of US National Security offers novel arguments about where these dominant narratives come from, how they become dominant, and when they collapse. It evaluates these arguments carefully against evidence drawn from US debates over national security from the 1930s to the 2000s and shows how these narrative dynamics have shaped the policies the United States has pursued"-- "In the winter of 2007, as Americans grew increasingly weary of a protracted and seemingly unwinnable war in Iraq, President George W. Bush bucked the political winds and, rather than bring the troops home, called for dispatching more forces, a "surge." This would be a last-ditch effort to bring order to Iraq, which had known little peace since US forces had invaded the country and toppled Saddam Hussein's regime four years before. But, while the military struggled to dominate the battlefield in Iraq, Bush faced a rhetorical insurgency at home. This was not a surge, many Democrats warned, but a dangerous "escalation." Failing to back the surge was tantamount to capitulating to "Jihadist Joe," one Republican congressman memorably charged"-- |
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| Description: | Cambridge University Press - CUP - Corpus Science politique (Licence nationale) |
| Bibliographie: | Bibliographie. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781316218969 |
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