Ethics, norms and the narratives of war : creating and encountering the enemy other
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Ethics, norms and the narratives of war : creating and encountering the enemy other
(War, conflict and ethics)
Routledge, 2013
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-161) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change.
The invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003, was led by the United States under the now discredited claim that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, critical questions concerning what we may be able to learn from this experience remain largely unexplored. The focus of this book, therefore, is on soldiers as systems of war - and the internal battle many of them wage as they live a reality that slowly emerges as inconsistent with familiar beliefs and value commitments.
This work offers a reflective study of identity struggle from the perspective of emotional psychology and delves into the 'narrative field' of socio-politics. Going beyond the political contestations over the U.S. military intervention in Iraq, the author analyses original research on the evolving beliefs and value-commitments of veterans of the war, exploring their faith in its 'just cause' and their personal sense of self and national identity.
This book will be of much interest to students of the Iraq War, US foreign policy, military studies, discourse analysis, and IR in general.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Making of an American War Narrative 1. From Crisis to Consensus 2. Shifting Storylines: Enter Iraq 3. The Push Toward Preemptive War: From Rhetoric to Reality Part II: Narrating Ourselves into War 4. Receiving the Narrative 5. Myth, Memory and Humiliation Part III: Living the Narrative 6. Embracing Uncertainty 7. Between Spaces: Confusion and Courage 8. Conclusion List of Interviews
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