Title:
Myth and Narrative in International Politics Interpretive Approaches to the Study of IR / edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara.
Main Entry:
Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit. editor.
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Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Date:
2016.
Publication Place:
London :
ISBN:
9781137537522
Subject:
Political science.
International organization.
Peace.
Politics and war.
Political Science and International Relations.
Military and Defence Studies.
Conflict Studies.
International organization.
Contents:
Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Myths < > Silences; Dvora Yanow -- Introduction: Myth and Narrative in International Politics; Berit Bliesemann de Guevara -- PART I – THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS -- 1. Myth in International Politics: Ideological Delusion and Necessary Fiction; Berit Bliesemann de Guevara -- 2. Beyond National Policy-Making: Conceptions of Myth in Interpretive Policy Analysis and Their Value for IR; Sybille Münch -- 3. The Precipice of Myth: Mythology/Epistemology; Robert Cooke -- 4. Bringing Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Bourdieu Together for a Post-structuralist Methodology to Analyse Myths; Catherine Goetze -- 5. How to Study Myths: Methodological Demands and Discoveries; Franziska Müller -- PART II – EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS -- 6. Warlords and States: A Contemporary Myth of the International System; Catherine Goetze -- 7. Afghanistan and the ‘Graveyard of Empires’: Blumenberg, Under-complex Analogy and Basic Myths in International Politics; Florian P. Kühn -- 8. Mutually Implicated Myths: The Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and Militarism; Katharine Millar -- 9. Tales and Images of the Battlefield in Contemporary Warfare; Alastair Finlan -- 10. The Powerful Myth of International Community and the Imperative to Build States; Katarzyna Kaczmarska -- 11. Global Governance and the Myth of Civil Society Participation; Charlotte Dany and Katja Freistein -- 12. Myths of the Near Future: Paris, Busan and Tales of Aid Effectiveness; Franziska Müller and Elena Sondermann -- 13. Organising Babylon: the Coordination of Intervention and the Denial of Politics; Stephan Hensell -- PART III – REFLECTIONS -- 14. Mythography: No Exit, No Conclusion?; Michael Loriaux and Cecelia Lynch.
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Printed edition: 9781137537515
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