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Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War
Winning domestic support for the Afghan War
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
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This book is ideal for students and researchers interested in international intervention, foreign policy, political communication, international security, and strategic studies. It will also benefit policymakers seeking insights into managing public opinion during military operations.
This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies.
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This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies.
In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, strategic narratives provide a grid for interpreting the why, what and how of the conflict. Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War asks how public support for the deployment of military troops to Afghanistan was garnered, sustained or lost in thirteen contributing nations. Public attitudes in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe towards the use of military force were shaped significantly by the cohesiveness and content of the strategic narratives employed by national policy-makers.
Assessing the ability of countries to craft a successful strategic narrative, the book addresses several key areas: how governments employ strategic narratives to gain public support; how strategic narratives develop during the course of the conflict; how these narratives are disseminated, framed and perceived through various media outlets; how domestic audiences respond to strategic narratives; and how this interplay is conditioned by events on the ground in Afghanistan, and by structural elements of the domestic political systems.
This book will be of much interest to students of international intervention, foreign policy, political communication, international security, strategic studies and International Relations in general.
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
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This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies. In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, strategic narratives provide a grid for interpreting the why, what and how of the conflict. Strategic...Hardback$35300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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'This volume is a must-read to understand 21st century conflict.' βAdmiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and Dean at The Fletcher School, highlights this bookβs lessons on the challenges of public communication during the NATO campaign in Afghanistan.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781138780422
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 09 February 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Illustration: 12 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, black and white
Contributors:
- Edited by Beatrice De Graaf
- Edited by George Dimitriu
- Edited by Jens Ringsmose
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 910g
Pages: 408
About the Author
Beatrice De Graaf is professor for the History of International Relations & Global Governance at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
George Dimitriu is a Research Fellow at the Netherlands Defence Academy.
Jens Ringsmose is associate professor at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark.
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