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      Winning domestic support for the Afghan War

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      Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War book

      Winning domestic support for the Afghan War
      Edited ByBeatrice De Graaf, George Dimitriu, Jens Ringsmose
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      eBook Published 11 February 2015
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315770734
      Pages 408
      eBook ISBN 9781315770734
      Subjects Communication Studies, Politics & International Relations
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      De Graaf, B., Dimitriu, G., & Ringsmose, J. (Eds.). (2015). Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War: Winning domestic support for the Afghan War (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315770734

      ABSTRACT

      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. This book 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 greatly shaped 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 the following key areas: 1) how governments employ strategic narratives to gain public support; 2) how strategic narratives develop during the course of the conflict; 3) how these narratives are disseminated, framed and perceived through various media outlets; 4) how domestic audiences respond to strategic narratives; 5) how this interplay is conditioned by both 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 IR in general.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I Introduction

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Introduction: shaping societies for war: strategic narratives and public opinion

      ByBEATRICE D E GRAAF , GEORGE DIMITRIU , AND JENS

      part |2 pages

      Part II Theoretical part

      chapter 2|20 pages

      The possibilities and limits of strategic narratives

      ByLAWRENCE FREEDMAN

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Searching for El Dorado: the legendary golden narrative of the Afghanistan War

      ByDAVID BETZ

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Great power politics and strategic narratives of war

      ByALISTER MISKIMMON , BEN O ’ LOUGHLIN , AND

      part |2 pages

      Part III Case studies

      chapter 5|17 pages

      The war in Afghanistan: Australia’s strategic narratives

      ByWILLIAM MALEY

      chapter 6|20 pages

      Elite consensus and ineffective strategic narratives: the domestic politics behind Canada’s commitment to Afghanistan

      ByJUSTIN MASSIE

      chapter 7|20 pages

      Czech strategic narrative on Afghanistan: ideological reactiveness and domestic political contestation

      ByNIK HYNEK

      chapter 8|19 pages

      “For our own security and for the sake of the Afghans”: how the Danish public was persuaded to support an unprecedented costly military endeavour in Afghanistan

      ByPETER V . JAKOBSEN AND JENS RINGSMOSE

      chapter 9|20 pages

      French strategic narratives, public opinion, and the war in Afghanistan

      ByRONALD HATTO

      chapter 10|22 pages

      “War- like circumstances”: Germany’s unforeseen combat mission in Afghanistan and its strategic narratives

      ByROBIN SCHROEDER, MARTIN ZAPFE

      chapter 11|20 pages

      Hungary in Afghanistan: a default narrative for a particularly prudent public

      ByPÉTER MARTON, PÉTER WAGNER

      chapter 12|22 pages

      The winter of our consent? Framing Italy’s “peace mission” in Afghanistan

      ByFABRIZIO COTICCHIA AND CAROLINA D E SIMONE

      chapter 13|22 pages

      “Fighting” versus “reconstructing”: framing the Dutch mission in Afghanistan

      ByBEATRICE D E GRAAF AND GEORGE DIMITRIU

      chapter 14|19 pages

      Poland’s strategic narrative on Afghanistan: getting the best of both worlds

      ByBEATA GÓRKA - WINTER

      chapter 15|18 pages

      A catch- all strategic narrative: target audiences and Swedish troop contribution to ISAF in Afghanistan

      ByERIK NOREEN, JAN ANGSTROM

      chapter 16|18 pages

      Communicating Afghanistan: strategic narratives and the case of UK public opinion

      ByRIKKE BJERG JENSEN

      chapter 17|31 pages

      The longest war story: elite rhetoric, news coverage, and the US war in Afghanistan TIM GROELING AND MATTHEW A . BAUM

      part |2 pages

      Part IV Conclusion

      chapter 18|17 pages

      Conclusion: how to operate strategic narratives: interweaving war, politics and the public

      ByBEATRICE D E GRAAF , GEORGE DIMITRIU , AND
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