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Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan

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Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan book

Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan

DOI link for Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan

Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan book

ByErika G. King
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 23 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598635
Pages 240 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315598635
SubjectsHumanities, Politics & International Relations
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King, E. (2014). Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598635

Situating Obama’s end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan begins with a detailed comparison with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly employs two case studies of presidential and media framing - the weeks surrounding the formal announcements of Obama’s December 2009 'surge-then-exit' strategy from Afghanistan and the end of combat operations in Iraq in August 2010 - to explore the role of mass media in presenting presidential narratives of war and finds evidence of an interpretive disconnect between the media and a president seeking to present a more nuanced approach to keeping America safe. Eloquently scrutinizing Obama’s discourse on the U.S. exit from two post-9/11 wars and contrasting the presidential endgame frame with the U.S. mainstream media’s narratives of the wars’ meaning, accomplishments, and denouement provides a unique combination of qualitative content analysis and topical case studies and makes this volume an ideal resource for scholars and researchers grappling with the complicated and ever-evolving nexus of war, the president, and the media.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|23 pages

Surging to Victory in the War on Terror

chapter 2|31 pages

Disrupting, Dismantling, and Defeating Al Qaeda

chapter 3|37 pages

War’s Surge-then-Exit through a Skeptical Media Lens

chapter 4|30 pages

Turning the Page on Operation Iraqi Freedom

chapter 5|31 pages

War’s Drawdown through a Censorious Media Lens

chapter 6|12 pages

Framing War’s Indecisive End

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