Selling the War on Terror - Foreign Policy Discourses after 9/11 (Hardcover)

This book uses a comparative analysis to examine foreign policy discourses and the dynamics of the 'War on Terror'. The book considers the three principal members of the Coalition of the Willing in Afghanistan and Iraq: the United States, Britain and Australia. Despite significant cultural, historical and political overlap, the War on Terror was nevertheless rendered possible in these contexts in distinct ways, drawing on different discourses and narratives of foreign policy and identity. This volume explores these differences and their origins, arguing that they have important implications for the way we understand foreign policy and political possibility. The author rejects prevalent interpretations of a War on Terror foreign policy discourse, in the singular, highlighting that coalition states both demonstrated and relied upon divergent policy framings to make the War on Terror possible. The book thus contributes to our understanding of political possibility, in the process correcting a tendency to view the War on Terror as a universal and monolithic political discourse. This book will be of much interest to students of foreign policy, critical security studies, terrorism studies, discourse analysis, and IR in general.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	2013
Authors:	Jack Holland
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-51975-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-51975-6
Barcode:	9780415519755

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