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Bliesemann de Guevara Berit. Myth and Narrative in International Politics. Palgrave Macmillan,2016. — 329 p.. 2016

Academic studies—international relations (IR), security studies, political science, public policy studies, and other social sciences—are fully taken up with articulating things, ideas, events, and so on in words. Even the renewed attention to the material aspects of the social world and visual methods for studying them has not—and cannot—displace our engage­ment with spoken and written language as the medium through which we communicate. Such verbalisation requires that knowing and its communi­cation be made explicit. And yet in that focus on the explicit rendering of acts, events, ideas, thoughts, experiences, and so on another dimension of human life is disappeared: tacit knowledge and its place in human affairs.

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Foreword
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction: Myth and Narrative in International Politics
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
Myths are part and parcel of contemporary international politics,
What This Book Is About
What This Book Is Not About
The Contributions in This Book
Theoretical and Methodological Foundation
CHAPTER 2 Myth in International Politics: Ideological Delusion and Necessary Fiction
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
Conceptualisations of Myth
The Mythography of International Politics
Myth and IR Scholarship
CHAPTER 3 Beyond National Policymaking: Conceptions of Myth in Interpretive Policy Analysis and Their Value for IR
Sybille Munch
‘Family’, ‘homecoming’, ‘growing together’—in trying to reconstruct how European identity was discursively imagined in Germany’s EU enlargement discourse during the 1990s, Hulsse (2006) argues that meta­phors like these primordialise Europe and establish a binary opposition between insiders and outsiders.
Argumentation and Persuasion in Policymaking: The Interpretive Turn
Analytical Dimension 1: Hermeneutic, Strategic, and Discursive Notions of Myth
Analytical Dimension 2: Myths as Different Forms of Narrative
Analytical Dimension 3: Functions of Myths
CHAPTER 4 The Precipice of Myth: Mythology/ Epistemology
Robert Cooke
Albert Camus famously referred to the myth of Sisyphus to dramatize the absurdity of the human condition: ‘Eluding is the invariable game. The typical act of eluding, the fatal evasion... is hope.
The Myth of Myth
The Myth of Presence
The Myth of Theuth
The Myth of Mythography
CHAPTER 5 Bringing Claude Levi-Strauss and Pierre Bourdieu Together for a Post-structuralist Methodology to Analyse Myths
Catherine Goetze
Myths fascinate—rightly so. This is what they are supposed to do.
Levi-Strauss and the Structural Analysis of Myths
Bourdieu’s ‘Post-structuralist’ Critique
Myths, Post-Structuralism and Power Applied in International Relations Analysis
CHAPTER 6 How to Study Myths: Methodological Demands and Discoveries
Franziska Müllei'
Where do we discover myths in International Relations (IR)? How can we identify, reiterate, translate, explain, and interpret them?
IR and the Art of Storytelling
Here Be Dragons! Of Myths and Mythographers
Remixing Methods: Methodological Considerations for a Critical Study of IR Myths
PART II Empirical Exploration
CHAPTER 7 Warlords and States: A Contemporary Myth of the International System
Catherine Goetze
Not all violence entrepreneurs and not all violent militaries qualify as war­lords, and not all situations of collective violence are labelled warlordism. In fact, the analysis of warlordism is relatively recent.
The Warlord Myth: A Tale of Wicked Men
The Paradigmatic Structure of the Warlord Myth: The Myth of the State
Contextual Analysis: The ‘Non-dits’ OF THE MyTHEMES
CHAPTER 8 Afghanistan and the ‘Graveyard of Empires': Blumenberg, Under-complex Analogy and Basic Myths in International Politics
Florian P Kuhn
In Afghanistan after 2001, along with the statebuilding endeavour, many attempts were made to uncover the truth about why Afghanistan is what it is represented to be. In this chapter,
The Blumenberg Legacy: Why Some Stories Survive and Others Are Forgotten
Creating a State for the Purpose of Imperial Rivalry: The Great Game and Afghanistan as ‘Graveyard of Empires’
The ‘Afghan Fierce Fighters’ Myth
The Myth of Afghanistan as ‘Safe Haven’ for Terrorists
Myth About a ‘Democratic Afghanistan State’
CHAPTER 9 Mutually Implicated Myths: The Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and Militarism
Katharine M. Millar
Clausewitz’s aphorism—‘War is a continuation of politics by other means’—may be read as a policy prescription identifying the appropri­ate relationship between state authorities and institutions of violence.
DCAF as International Policy
DCAF as Policy Myth
Myth and Normalisation
Militarism as Myth
DCAF and Militarism
Conclusion
CHAPTER 10 Tales and Images of the Battlefield in Contemporary Warfare
Alastair Finlan
Warfare is manifest horror.
The Mythology of War
Conclusion
CHAPTER 11 The Powerful Myth of the International Community and the Imperative to Build States
Katarzyna Kaczmarska
The language of public debate on international issues is filled with appeals to and invocations of the international community.1
The International Community as Studied
Ideas in Action: The International Community and International Statebuilding
The International Community as a Political Myth
Conclusions: Myth and Power
CHAPTER 12 Global Governance and the Myth of Civil Society Participation
Charlotte Dany and Katja Freistein
The idea of ‘global governance’ is now firmly established in political sci­ence and practice.
Narrating Politics as Myth
Identifying the Myth of Civil Society Participation in Global Governance
Reproducing the Myth of Civil Society Participation in Global Policymaking
Conclusions
CHAPTER 13 Myths of the Near Future: Paris, Busan, and Tales of Aid Effectiveness
Franziska Müller and Mena Sondermann
In a secularised, yet postsecular world, myths have again found a new refuge.
Deciphering Development: The Productive Power of Myths
The Aid Effectiveness Myth in the Context of the Paris Declaration
The Busan Conference: Refashioning the Aid Effectiveness Myth for a Polycentric World
Conclusion
CHAPTER 14 Organising Babylon: The Coordination of Intervention and the Denial of Politics
Stephan Hensell
International intervention, be it with the aim of emergency relief, peace­building or development aid, often involves such a multitude of actors that it is hard to get an overview.
Coordination asa Rationalised Myth
The Rhetoric and Reality of Coordination in Intervention
Loose Coupling in Albania
Conclusion
PART III Reflection
CHAPTER 15 Mythography: No Exit, No Conclusion?
Michael Loriaux and Cecelia Lynch
Myths and Mythographers in IR
Mythos and Logos
Index

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