Index

A

Aberystwyth, 37-38 absence, 17, 71-74, 77-79, 82-84,

165, 174, 181, 186, 200, 220, 239 absurdity, 67-68, 74, 79-80, 82-84 academia, 5, 37-39, 196, 220, 231 accountability, 7, 140, 174, 251, 254, 255-256, 277, 280

action, 19, 25-26, 48, 53-54, 56-57,

59, 61, 88, 130-131, 133-135, 137, 138, 142, 148, 151-152, 156, 158, 167-168, 196, 199, 201, 209-211, 213, 215, 218-219,229-230,236-240, 253, 257, 267, 271, 274, 277, 281, 290, 294-295

Adorno, Theodor W., 16, 18, 28-29, 35-36, 69, 78-81, 82, 149

Afghanistan, 1, 7-8, 22, 130, 132, 135-136, 137, 139, 141, 143­144,147-148, 150-168, 198-200, 205, 212 agency, 20, 26, 32, 34, 39, 48, 50-51,

55, 61, 108, 137, 209, 211, 216, 224, 263 agenda, 39, 49, 120, 210, 214, 221,

235, 241, 243, 254, 257-259,

261, 263, 268-269, 275 research agenda, 6, 16, 109-110, 112-115, 118, 121 ahistoricity, 139, 232-233, 253, 256,

263

aid effectiveness, 9, 34, 249-251,

254-255, 257-264, 275, 293-294 Albania, 9, 269, 278-280 alignment in international

development/intervention, 251, 254, 255, 273, 276, 279-280 ambiguity, 31, 69, 78, 150 Amerindian myths, 92, 130 analogy, 19, 147, 155-156, 160, 167 anarchy, 15, 89, 136, 137, 138, 140 anecdote, 151, 160 Anglo-Afghan wars, 154, 157, 159

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299

antagonist, antagonism, 53, 90, 100, 232, 240, 242, 297 anthropology, ix-x, 2, 22-23, 48, 55, 111-112, 119, 136, 148, 291 anti-hero, 102-103 aporia, 68, 72-73 appeasement, 20, 289 archetype, 68, 88, 182 argumentation, 5, 49, 51, 57, 60, 174, 177, 180

argumentative turn, 49, 51 Aristotle, ix-x, 42 artefact, 25, 51, 117 audience, 19, 87-88, 92-93, 97, 100, 102, 119, 121, 130-131, 138, 142, 166, 197, 221-222, 262 authority, 19, 26, 31, 89, 98-99, 102-103, 139, 164-165, 175, 179, 182-184, 187, 209, 234, 277, 292

authoritative, 17, 26, 89, 98, 164 autonomy, 100, 114, 165, 272-273, 296

153, 156-157, 167, 176-178, 231, 236, 244, 250-251, 257, 269, 271, 290 commonly held belief, 1, 3 binary, 23, 47, 69-70, 77, 79, 95, 101-102

blame, 20, 53, 130, 186

Blumenberg, Hans, 7, 16, 18, 21-22, 36, 147, 148-153, 156, 163, 166-167

Bottici, Chiara, 16-17, 18, 20-21, 25-26, 28, 210, 220-221,223, 232

Bourdieu, Pierre, 6, 18, 23, 35, 90-91, 96-103

bourgeoisie, x, 25, 35 British Empire, 136, 153-155, 157-158, 166, 178-179, 205

bureaucracy, 33, 139-140, 142, 164, 180, 239, 253, 271, 273, 276-277, 279-281

Busan High-Level Forum, 9, 251, 257-263,264, 275

B

barbarism, 80, 149, 195 Bartelson, Jens, 9, 291-293

Barthes, Roland, 8-9, 16, 18, 22-23, 24-25, 27, 32-33, 35, 68, 70, 82, 84, 107, 153-155, 198, 232-233,251-253 basic myth, 151-153, 281 battlefield, 1, 8, 193, 196-200, 203-205

beginnings, middles, ends of narratives, ix, 18, 52, 134 beginnings, xi, 18, 28, 52, 53, 70, 134, 236

belief, viii, x, 1, 3, 15, 18, 20, 23, 28, 36-31, 34-36, 40, 50, 56, 60, 79, 87, 107, 114, 119, 144, 148,

C

Camus, Albert, 6, 67-68, 71, 74,

83-84

capitalism, 154-155, 218, 223, 236-237, 239

Cassirer, Ernst, 9, 16-17, 18, 27-28, 32, 36, 51, 149, 290-293, 295 casuistry, 294-295

category, categorisation, 5, 16-17, 32-37, 39-40, 53, 58, 68, 70, 80, 91, 97-103, 110, 112, 117, 139, 143, 181, 185, 203, 216, 244, 291

Central Asia, 8, 154, 211, 218, ceremony, ix, 4, 30, 270, 278 character (in a narrative), ix, 18, 133 China, 132, 138-139, 141, 145, 218, 257, 261 civil society organisations (CSOs), 34, 231, 235, 237,239-244, 257 civil society participation (CSP), 8,

229- 231,235-236, 240-241, 243-244

civilisation, 27, 35, 37, 178 civil-military relations, 183-184 class, 60, 70, 99, 112, 154, 280 classification, 23, 33, 75, 117, 133, 138, 181, 216-217, 222, 269

Clausewitz, Carl von, 173, 175 closure, 70, 75-76, 79, 291 collateral damage, 8, 198-199, 203-204

communication, v-vi, 24, 33, 88, 120-121, 194, 240, 260, 262, 274 complexity, 2, 40, 115, 210, 234, 253, 277, 294-295

consensus, vi, viii, x, 55, 174-175, 180, 252, 254-256, 258, 260-261, 274, 276, 282 constitution, 2, 5, 15-17, 19-20, 27, 32, 36-37, 40-41, 50-51, 59-60, 77, 84, 115, 153, 179, 233, 253, 296-297 constructivism in IR, 54, 88, 110, 112, 249

contestation, 16, 110, 119, 234, 252, 282

contextualisation, 101-102, 121, 131, 140, 212

contingency, 20, 22, 29, 31, 35, 49, 52, 58, 135, 157, 179, 234-235, 291-292

contradiction, ix, 2, 4, 23, 55, 79, 99, 150-152, 155, 177, 250, 252-253, 255, 281

cooperation, 9, 54, 110, 154, 210, 219, 221, 224, 237, 255, 261, 270-272 development cooperation, 9, 210-213, 216, 250-251, 253-255, 258-260, 264

North-South relations/ cooperation/divide, 243, 256, 259-260, 264

South-South cooperation, 257, 259, 262, 264

coordination, 1, 9, 30, 259, 267-282, 293

coordination problem, 9, 267-268, 271, 272-274,276, 278, 281-282

cosmopolitanism, 27, 221, 293,

295-296

counter-myth, 4, 25-26 credibility, 19, 26, 151, 153, 156,

161, 165, 238-239, 274

crisis, 27-28, 58-59, 72, 80, 161,

201, 268, 272-273, 294, critical discourse analysis, 54, 119,

213

critique, 2-3, 6, 17, 20, 23, 25, 27,

29, 31, 36, 38, 68, 70, 80,

89-91, 96-98, 100, 109, 111, 114, 136, 139, 153, 167, 182, 188, 254, 293

culture, ix, 23, 30, 40, 55-56, 70,

88-89, 113, 115, 149, 158, 222, 239

customs, 19, 26, 32, 181, 215

D

de Saussure, Ferdinand, 90, 92, 94-95, 97, 100

death, ix, 67-68, 74, 76, 79-80, 83,

194-195, 199, 201, 204-205 decolonisation of IR, 108, 111 deconstruction, 6, 27, 68, 83-84, 87,

93, 131, 149, 249, 290-291, 294, 296-297

decontextualisation, 142, 150, 160 decoupling, 30, 150, 268-269, 278,

281

definition, ix, 2, 16-17, 20-21, 25, 30-31, 35, 49, 52, 55-56, 58-60,

69- 71, 73-75, 78, 80, 88-89, 101-102,130-131,133-134, 136, 139, 144, 154, 167, 182, 210, 215-216, 223-224, 230, 252-253, 257, 263, 270-271, 281 delusion, 2, 5, 17, 22, 115, 150, 205 demilitarization, 185-186 democracy, 57, 110, 140, 164, 174, 176-178,181,185-188, 195, 217,219

democratic control of the armed forces (DCAF), 7, 173-180, 182-188 demythologisation, 70, 72, 81-82 depoliticisation, 2-3, 9, 16, 25, 31, 34-35, 39, 70, 177, 179, 188, 233-235, 242, 251-253, 256, 261-264,281

Derrida, Jacques, 6, 9, 16, 18, 31, 36, 68, 70-77, 80-84, 253, 296 desire, 20, 30, 53, 71, 75, 78, 84, 113, 174, 178, 181, 185, 222, 229

development, 34, 48, 57, 59, 111, 120, 161, 209-219, 221-222, 235,239, 250-264 development aid, 34, 250, 253, 255-256, 267, 275-276 development effectiveness, 259, 261-264

dialectic, 28, 71, 74, 78, 80-84, 94, 291

dichotomy, 5, 16, 31, 33, 69-71, 74, 110, 260-261

differance, 31, 69, 73-76, 78, 84, 253

discourse, vii, ix-x, 5-9, 19, 30, 34, 47-61, 68, 72-73, 77, 81, 89, 96-101, 107, 118, 119-121, 130, 132, 140, 142, 148, 152, 156, 161, 168, 174, 179,

210-218, 220-224, 232, 234, 252-253, 258-259, 261-262, 264, 290, 295

diversity, 215, 236, 239, 242, 258-261

dogma, 6, 16, 22, 78, 80, 108-109, 152, 261

domination, 6, 23, 56, 78, 88, 90, 97, 149, 239, 241

donors, 8-9, 34, 211, 218-219, 223-224, 250-252, 254-263, 273-275, 277, 279-280, 293 doxa, 91, 99

drama, 19, 25, 29, 40, 67, 140 dramatis personae, 18, 88, 130-131, 133, 135, 138, 140

drone, 8, 142, 203-205

E

education, vii, 38, 99, 180, 198, 213, 217, 296

efficiency, 142, 144, 149, 167, 239, 259, 270-271, 274, 276

elite, 51, 56, 152-155, 180, 196, 212

emancipation, 9, 34, 38, 111, 251-252, 256, 261-264, 293

emotion, viii, 21, 27, 54, 56-57, 92, 114, 119, 238, 293

empowerment, 113, 250, 252, 256 empty signifier, 24, 253 enabling, 2, 5, 8, 17, 20, 26-27, 32,

33-34, 38-39, 40, 69, 74-75, 115

enactment, 4, 29-30, 117-118, 239, 241,243-244

enemy, 178, 194-195, 197, 200, 202, 232

enlightenment, 28-29, 35, 40, 53, 59, 69, 77-81, 107, 148-149,167, 178, 221, 253, 293 epistemic community, viii, 119-120 epistemology, v, 6, 33, 41, 61, 68, 74, 79, 81, 83, 92-94, 96-98, 103, 107-116, 139, 143-144, 148, 150, 152-153, 161, 167, 179, 181, 249, 264

essentialisation, 49, 57-59, 88, 142, 144

Essex School, 20, 52, 234 beatific narrative, 20, 58 horrific narrative, 20, 58

ethics, 39, 41, 69, 81-84, 195, 211, 296 Eurocentrism, 15-16, 38, 109-110, 117, 144

Europe, 15, 25-27, 47-48, 54, 139, 140, 155, 165-166, 173-174,

180, 198, 201, 217-220, 273, 278, 289

European Commission, 216, 219, 273

European Union, 26-27, 47-48, 54, 217

evasion, 67, 71-73, 78, 81 evidence, vii-ix, 40, 154-155, 164,

181, 199, 224, 240, 253, 264, 268-269, 271, 279

experience, v-viii, 6-7, 20, 22, 27, 31, 52, 69, 93, 113-115, 139, 148, 153, 180, 197-198, 210, 222, 233, 238, 242, 257, 259, 291 expertise, 31, 33, 118-120, 155, 161, 175, 217, 250-260, 262, 264, 269

F

fable, 26, 53, 69, 290

fact, viii, 6-7, 15, 29-31, 35, 40, 55,

69, 72, 74, 78-80, 89, 93, 95,

97, 115, 130, 133, 139, 144, 149-150, 152, 177, 179, 181, 196-197, 199, 213, 233, 242, 256, 262, 271, 294, 296 facticity, 6, 29, 31, 69, 79

fairy tale, 133-134 false/true dichotomy, x, 3, 7, 16, 31, 33, 59, 69, 72-73, 81, 93, 107, 153, 167, 220, 232, 269 falsifiability, viii, 69, 77, 93, 97 fame, 7, 152, 158, 164 fantasmatic logic, 20, 58, 234-235, 238-239

fantasy, 22, 58, 158, 196, 238, 253 fate, fatalism, 28, 67, 71, 292-293 feminism, 60, 109, 112, 186 fiction, 2, 5, 17, 22, 26, 31-32, 36, 69, 72, 79, 115, 148, 151, 196-197, 231, 234

film, vii, 53, 158, 185, 196-197,

199

folklore, folk tale, 18, 90-91, 131, 135, 138, 142

Foucault, Michel, 18, 31, 35, 51, 179-182, 184, 187-188 foundational myth, 4, 53, 57, 59, 89, 91, 99, 101-102, 142, 147, 150, 176, 182, 184, 291-292

framing, vi, x, 8, 27, 48, 56, 60,

88, 90, 107, 120, 130, 142, 182-183, 212, 215, 262, 281

Frankfurt School, 29, 149 frontier, 26-27, 293, 295 functions of myth constituting/constitutive function of myth, 2, 5, 15-17, 19-20, 27, 32, 36-37, 40-41, 50-51, 59-60, 77, 84, 115, 153, 179, 233, 253, 296-297 depoliticising function of myth, 2-3, 9, 16, 25, 31, 34-35, 39, 70, 177, 179, 188, 233-235, 242, 251-253, 256, 261-264, 281, determining function of myth, 5, 16, 32, 37-39, 39

functions (cont.)

emancipatory function of myth, 9,

34, 38, 111, 251-252, 256, 261-264, 293 empowering function of myth, 113, 250, 252, 256 enabling function of myth, 2, 5, 8,

17, 20, 26-27, 32, 33-34, 38-39, 40, 69, 74-75, 115 harmonising function of myth, 9,

251-252,255-256,261-264 instrumental function of myth, 26,

32-33, 39 legitimising functions of myth, 2, 8,

16, 19, 21, 26, 29-30, 50, 54, 56, 59-61, 89, 99, 138-139, 142-144, 148, 155, 158, 184, 187, 194, 196, 198-199, 211, 220, 222, 230-231, 233, 235-236,240-241,243-244, 258-260, 269-271, 276, 278, 281-282,293 meaning-making function of myth, vi-vii, x, 2, 16, 17, 20-25, 31, 35-36, 40, 49-52, 56, 60, 67-68, 70, 72-73, 76-79, 84, 91-93, 95-97, 99-100, 119, 130-131, 138, 140, 149, 151, 165-166, 178, 213, 222, 233-234, 251-253, 255, 257-259, 264, 290-291, 293, 295-296 naturalising function of myth, 2-3,

5, 16-17, 25, 31-32, 34-35, 36, 39-40, 54, 57-59, 89, 167, 184, 187-188, 230-231, 233-234, 252, 256 normalising function of myth, 7, 31,

174, 178-179, 182, 187, 220, 234, 243

productive function of myth, 2-3, 7, 32, 34-35, 115, 117, 149-151, 153, 156, 167, 249-251, 256, 261, 291 future, 18, 26, 34, 54, 60, 70-71, 81-83, 154, 177, 204, 219, 229, 232, 235-238, 249-252, 254, 264, 293

G

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 9, 295 gender, 112, 139, 218, 239 genealogy, 31, 109, 118, 149, 166 genre, 27, 197, 231

Germany, 27, 47, 132, 139, 145, 195, 201, 278, 290

Giustozzi, Antonio, 135, 137, 143-144,158,161

global civil society, 230, 232

global governance, 34, 211, 229-231, 235-244, 292

global society, 88-89, 101-102

Global South, 173, 241-242, 252, 257, 268

Global War on Terror, 8, 198-201, 202-204

gods, 1, 28, 67, 77-78, 148,

151

Greek mythology, ix, 1, 151

Gulf War, 201-202, 237

H

harmonisation, 251, 254, 255, 271, 275-276, 279

Hegel, G.W.F., 79, 81

hegemony, 29, 33, 58-59, 70, 74, 109, 113, 119, 188, 234, 252, 257 hermeneutics, 5, 50-51, 54, 56, 61,

70- 71, 78, 120, 131, 295

hero, 1, 53, 84, 102-103, 111, 136, 158, 180, 197, 232, 235, 238, 240

hierarchy, 27, 32-35, 40, 71-72, 79, 88-89, 97-98, 102-103, 161, 165, 233, 243, 254, 277-278 historiography, 19, 22, 68, 150, 155,

157 history, ix, 2, 19, 24-27, 53-54, 57,

70, 91, 107, 109, 111-112, 149-150, 155-156, 166-167, 176-177, 196, 232-233, 236, 238, 253, 256, 258, 262, 294 homogenisation, 74, 110 hope, 26, 34, 67-69, 71-72, 79,

82-83,155,162,244,297 horizon, 58-59, 61, 83, 130,

295, 297 Horkheimer, Max, 16, 18, 27, 28-29,

35-36, 69, 77-81, 82, 149 hospitality, 156, 162, 296-297 human rights, 110, 217, 261 human shield, 8, 199 humanities, 88, 90, 297

I

ideas, v-vi, viii-x, 1, 3-4, 7-8, 15, 17,

21, 26, 29-34, 36, 39-40, 51,

67, 88, 94, 97, 100, 107, 110, 114, 134, 144, 147, 149, 154, 156, 160, 161, 163-164, 166, 181, 184, 185, 187, 194, 201, 205, 209-212, 215-216, 219-220,222-224,229-230, 233-234, 236-238, 240-241, 244, 251-252, 255, 258-260, 263-264, 270-271, 276, 279, 290, 295-296 identity, 4, 29, 37, 47-48, 51-52, 54,

58, 60, 88, 115, 155, 210, 221, 223, 231, 234 ideology, x, 2-3, 5, 15-18, 20-25,

27-28, 32-35, 38-39, 58, 68, 70,

75, 78, 109, 115, 137, 144, 153, 161-164, 174-176, 182, 184, 188, 196, 220, 230-231, 234, 249-250, 252, 255-256, 259-260

ideological delusion, 2, 5, 15, 17, 22, 115

imaginary, 57-59, 153, 161, 231, 293 imagination, 3, 16, 21, 47, 60, 71, 78, 87, 142, 154, 163, 223, 251, 290-291, 294, 297 incommensurables, 30-31, 55, 69, 72-73, 75, 77, 79, 83, 177 inequality, 4, 20, 24, 32, 241, 256 interest, 33, 49, 52, 56-57, 60, 87, 102-103, 116, 152, 154, 164, 181, 222, 236-237, 239, 241, 243, 256-257, 262-263, 280, 282

international community, 1, 8, 21, 151, 163, 174-175, 177-178, 209-224,292-293

agential international community, 8, 211, 218-220,221-223 International Crisis Group, 30-31, 134

International Political Sociology, 107, 109

international system, 7, 15, 87, 101, 110, 129, 139, 143-144, 166, 292

interpretation, 7, 26, 35, 49, 52, 78, 92, 94, 96, 98, 101, 137, 139, 147-148, 151-152, 157, 160, 162-163, 212, 220, 252-253, 258,261-262,294-296 interpretive policy analysis, 5, 19, 47-61, 120 interpretive turn, 5, 49-50, 60 intertextuality, 22, 75, 80, 84 intervention, 4, 7, 9, 22, 30, 38, 50, 53, 83, 118, 129-130, 135,

141- 143, 147, 151, 156, 161, 163, 166-167, 182, 200, 204-205, 210, 212, 224, 235, 267-269, 271-272, 276, 281-282,292 invasion, 132, 141, 159, 198, 200

IR discipline, viii, 5-6, 15-17, 37-41,

88,102, 107-109, 112-113,

119,152

Iraq, 8, 141, 144, 178, 198-200, 202,

205

irrationality, 27-28, 78, 80-81, 91,

167

Islam, 155, 160-164

isolationism, 20, 289

isomorphism, 30, 39, 156, 193

Israel Corporation for Community

Centers (ICCC), vi, 55

J

Japan, 195, 201

jihad, 155-156, 158, 160-163 justice, 142, 261, 273, 296-297

K

Kantianism, 90, 290-291, 295 killer application, 8, 203-204 knowledge, v-vi, viii, 2-3, 5-7, 16-17,

22, 25, 30-34, 36-37, 39-41,

48-49, 51-52, 55-56, 68, 72-75,

79- 84, 93, 96-98, 100, 108, 112-117, 120, 149-152, 156, 159, 163, 167, 179-181, 188, 216-218, 233, 236, 239, 261-262, 289, 291, 295 knowledge production, 2-3, 5, 31, 37, 40, 73-74, 84, 108, 112-116, 120, 156, 167, 181, 216, 218

Kyrgyzstan, 8, 211, 217-218, 221

L

Laclau, Ernesto, 52, 58-60, 230, 243 language, v-vi, viii, x, 5, 7, 25, 27,

32-33, 35, 60, 69-71, 75-77, 79,

82, 88, 94-96, 100, 161, 174, 178, 180-181, 188, 205, 209-210, 216-217, 224, 252, 255, 258, 260, 264, 290, 296 legend, 4, 26, 90, 151 legitimisation, legitimacy, 2, 8, 16, 19,

21, 26, 29-30, 50, 54, 56, 59-61, 89, 99, 138-139,

142- 144, 148, 155, 158, 184, 187, 194, 196, 198-199, 211, 220, 222, 230-231, 233, 235-236,240-241,243-244, 258-260, 269-271, 276, 278, 281-282,293

Levi-Strauss, Claude, 6-7, 16, 18, 22-24, 35-36, 68, 70-71, 81-82, 87, 90-103, 129-131, 134, 138, 140

liberalism, 110, 154, 175-179, 182-188,218,221,223-224, 242, 262

lie, 3, 60, 79, 93, 178, 205, 252 life, v, viii-xi, 27, 67-68, 74, 80, 83,

92, 99, 113, 151, 160, 175, 177, 183, 185-186, 203, 219, 220, 238, 295, 297

linguistics, 2, 26, 90, 92, 94-95, 97-98, 100-101, 133, 253, 290, 296

logocentrism, 2-3, 6, 31-32, 41, 68,

71- 72, 74-79,83-84

logos, 3, 5-6, 21, 31, 51, 57, 68-74, 76-78, 83-84, 147, 153, 290, 296

loose coupling, 270-271, 278, 280-281

Lyotard, Jean-Francois, 53-54

M

Marten, Kimberley, 139, 143-144

Marxism, 25, 59-60, 107 masculinity, 185, 197 meaning-making, vi-vii, x, 2, 16, 17, 20-25, 31, 35-36, 40, 49-52, 56, 60, 67-68, 70, 72-73, 76-79, 84, 91-93, 95-97, 99-100, 119, 130-131, 138, 140, 149, 151, 165-166, 178, 213, 222, 233-234, 251-253, 255, 257-259, 264, 290-291, 293, 295-296

measuring, 39, 100, 152, 158, 215­217, 242, 254, 260, 262-263 media, 8, 53-54, 56, 58, 120-121, 135-136, 175, 185, 202, 205 mediating myth, 198, 201, 204 metaphor, x, 19, 47-48, 58-59, 73, 76-79, 82, 91, 115, 118, 121, 136, 138, 140, 143, 216, 252 metaphysics, 6, 68-69, 71-77, 79, 82,291

methods, v, ix, 5, 23, 26, 28, 72, 84, 92, 99, 101, 103, 109, 111-113, 116-121

ethnography, 68, 92, 114, 116, 118-121, 253, 258 autobiography, 48, 112, 116 auto-ethnography, 6, 109, 112-115 interviews, 116-117, 118-119, 121, 210

visual communication analysis, 120-121

methodology, v, viii, 2-3, 5-6, 24, 29, 33-35, 41, 48, 68, 80, 87, 91-92, 94, 98, 103, 107-109, 111-118, 120-121, 131-133, 212, 249, 290

Meyer, John W., 16, 18, 29-30, 33, 35,269-270

militarism, 7, 35-36, 173-174, 178-188, 294

militarism scholarship/literature, 36, 180-187 militia, militants, 135, 137, 158 mind-world monism/dualism, 96-98

mirror myth, 23-24, 102, 129, 138, 140, 142-143

modernity, 28, 80, 84, 140, 149, 179, 185, 294

monopoly of the legitimate use of violence, 139, 140, 142, 201 morality, 2, 31, 37, 51, 53, 56, 89, 92, 101, 129, 140, 157, 159, 174, 176, 211, 233, 240, 293-294 myth as paradigmatic truth/belief, 1, 19, 26, 32, 34, 36, 38

myth busting, 15, 33 myths, specific

Afghan democratic state, 148, 164-166

Afghan fierce fighters, 7, 148, 156-160, 163

Afghanistan as safe haven for terrorists, 7, 148, 161-163, 167

Anne Frank myth, vii

antiseptic battlefield, 1, 8, 198-201, 205

1389 battle of Kosovo, 4 clash of civilisations, 21 collateral damage, 8, 198-199, 203-204

field facts myth, 31 flexibility myth, 55 flexible pragmatism myth, 31 graveyard of empires, 148, 153-156,157-158, 163 human shields, 8, 199 killer applications/drone warfare, 8, 203-204

myth of, 1919/birth of the IR discipline, 15, 37-38, 40-41 progress myth, 25, 40, 59, 80-81, 109, 177, 222

myths (cont) neutrality/independence myth, 31,

84

objectivity myth, 84

Oedipus myth, 95

Peace ofWestphalia, 15, 101-102, 144 precision killing, 8, 201-203, 205 rational goal-setting, 55

Rhineland frontier, 26-27

state myth, 130-131, 133, 139-143 the skate and the south wind, 91, 130, 140

Theuth myth, 77

tolerance myth, ix

uniqueness myth, 31, 55

US family farm myth, 56-57 warlord myth, 1, 6-7, 24, 35, 129-145

mytheme, 70, 77, 94-95, 140-142, 144 mythographer, 23, 25, 32-33, 35, 48,

68, 81, 83-84, 108-109, 112, 115-118, 121, 289, 293, 297 mythologisation, 74, 80, 82, 130,

133, 139-140, 196-197, 252 mythology, 4, 9, 25, 28-29, 37, 39,

56, 67, 70, 74, 78, 80, 82, 92, 131, 135-136, 139, 151, 251-253, 297

mythology of war, 196, 198 mythos, 3, 5, 31, 51, 57, 68-75,

77-78, 80-81, 83-84, 147, 153, 290, 296

N

naming, 21, 28, 31, 53 narration, 8, 17, 21, 28, 53, 69, 87,

91-92, 94, 96, 98-99, 101, 120, 142-143, 149, 167, 176, 231-232,234-236, 238 narrative, ix-x, 1, 3-8, 15, 17, 18-22,

26, 30-34, 36-40, 48, 50-51,

52-54, 55-56, 58, 60-61,

69-71, 73, 88, 90-91, 95-99, 101-103, 108-109, 111-113, 115, 118, 121, 129-131, 133, 135, 138, 140, 142-143, 148-149, 151-152,155, 158-161, 166-167, 176-178, 180-181, 196, 198-199, 202, 209-211, 220-221, 223,

229- 235,238-240,242-244, 249, 253, 269, 271, 276, 290

grand narrative, 231, 234, 249 meta-narrative, 56, 109, 231 narrator, 92-93, 100, 131 naturalisation, 2-3, 5, 16-17, 25,

31-32, 34-35, 36, 39-40, 54,

57- 59, 89, 167, 184, 187-188,

230- 231,233-234, 252, 256 nature, 23, 25, 70, 148-149 necessary fiction, 2, 5, 15, 17, 22, 26,

32, 115 neoliberalism, 38-39, 239, 293 neo-positivism, viii, 51, 116 Netherlands, vii, ix, 132 new public management, 39, 262 non-foundational foundation, 74,

76-77 non-governmental organisations

(NGOs), 235-236, 239, 267, 271-273, 275-278, 281 normalisation, 7, 31, 174, 178-179,

182, 187, 220, 234, 243 normativity, 2, 7, 20, 49, 89, 92, 110,

113, 175-176, 178-188, 196, 230, 257, 281, 294 norms, vi, 57,88-90,99, 110-111,

162, 215, 251, 255, 258-259, 264, 290

O

objectification, 27, 97, 216, 262 objectivity, viii, 59, 84, 98, 112, 289,

291

OECD34, 174, 214, 250, 254-255, 258-259, 263, 272, 274-275, 280

ontology, v, x, 41, 52, 68, 70, 73, 75, 79-80, 92-93, 111, 136, 139,

143- 144, 165, 231, 264, 290 Operation Desert Storm, 201 Operation Enduring Freedom, 136,

159, 198, 203 Operation Iraqi Freedom, 198 oral speech/narrative, v, 23, 33, 92,

94, 149, 151, 157, 166, 296 order, ordering, 3-4, 7, 16, 23-24,

28, 32-33, 35, 37, 39-40, 50,

59, 70-71, 88-89, 95, 98-99, 110-111, 117, 129-130, 134, 137, 139, 141-143, 162-163, 165, 167, 176, 184-185, 195, 209-210, 219, 222, 231, 233, 253-254, 292 organisational myth, vi-vii, 30,

55 orientalism, 136, 139, 143 origin story, 48, 53-54, 61 othering, 117, 260 ownership, 251, 254-257, 259, 263,

280

P

pacifism, 7, 174, 177-178, 186

Pakistan, 141-142, 144, 161-162, 166, 204

paradigmatic structure of myth, 7, 22-23, 92, 95-96, 98, 101-103, 129, 131, 138, 142, 151

Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, 9, 250-251, 254-257, 258, 264, 275

partnership in international cooperation, 174, 217-219, 236-237, 239-240, 251, 254­261, 263, 272, 274-276, 280 pathology, 180-184, 186-188 patrimonialism, 274, 280

patronage, 134, 136, 137, 139, 140, 180

peace, vi, 7, 20, 26, 36, 57, 102, 130, 136, 142, 144, 160, 174, 176-177, 184, 195-196, 219, 267, 271, 274-278, 281

peacebuilding, 219, 267,

274-278

performativity, 2, 17, 112, 115, 117-118, 120, 153, 210, 250, 253, 290

persuasion, 2, 5, 17, 49, 51, 196 pharmakon, 69, 77-78, 80, 82-83 phenomenology, 135, 210, 295 Plato, 18, 69, 73, 77

plot, vii, ix, 18-19, 22-23, 55, 111, 151, 180, 197, 237 emplotment, 18-19, 52 meta-plot, 111

pluralism, 110-111, 113, 116, 118, 120, 291

poetry, 27, 71, 92, 158, 197, 289 poison, 77-78, 80, 82, 195

Polanyi, Michael, v-vi

policy myth, vi, 7, 30-31, 55, 72, 150, 174, 176-177, 179-180, 188, 271, 295

policy slippage, 269, 274, 278, 280 policymaking, 5, 47-49, 51, 54, 56-58, 60-61, 88, 230, 236, 240, 242-243

political discourse theory, 52, 58 political philosophy, 17, 27-29, 111,

149

political science, v, viii, 94, 229 positivism, vi, viii, 3, 29, 35, 40, 49, 59, 80-81, 94, 111, 114, 118, 148-149, 212, 231, 263 postcolonial studies, 108, 110-111, 117, 139, 256

post-empiricism, 52, 57

post-positivism, 5, 35, 49-50, 60-61, 107-108, 111, 113, 116, 153, 231

poststructuralism, 5, 9, 20, 50-52, 54,

58- 59, 61, 90, 101, 107-108,

249, 251, 253

poverty, 134, 156, 209, 213, 216, 218, 219, 237, 250, 254, 259 power/knowledge (Foucault), 48, 181

precision killing, 8, 201-203, 205, prejudice, 98, 295, 297 primitive, 23, 27, 92, 291, 296 problematisations, 50, 53 productive power (Foucault), 31, 34-35, 178

prophecy, 28, 164, 236 Propp, Vladimir, 90, 96, 131,

133-134,138,143

protagonist, 8, 53, 111, 212, 232­233, 235, 238-240, 242-243 provincialism, 9, 293-297 public sector reform, 9, 269, 279-280 purpose, vi, 27, 29, 37, 52, 59, 143, 152-153, 157, 163, 181, 210­211, 222, 224, 250, 263, 270

R

Rambo, 158, 196-197 ranking of states, 216-217 rationalised myth, 29, 268, 269-271,

276, 278-279, 281

rationality, xiii, x, 4, 7, 9, 18, 29-30, 35, 40, 54-55, 57, 60, 69, 71, 101, 111, 139, 164, 167, 174, 176-178, 185, 217, 238, 249,

250, 253, 268-271, 275-276, 278-279, 281-282, 290, 292

reality, 3, 5-6, 22, 27, 30-31, 35, 48-51, 55, 58-61, 69-70, 72, 75, 79, 117, 130, 147, 150-151,

158, 176, 187, 197-198, 200,

202, 204, 223, 231-234, 249, 250, 269, 272, 290 reason, viii, x, 22, 27-28, 69, 71, 78,

80- 82, 84, 88, 91, 137, 148-150, 155, 160, 290-291, 293-296

recipients of aid, 130, 250, 255-256,

272, 293 reflexivity, 5-6, 17, 37, 41, 61, 69,

81- 82, 84, 94, 97, 103, 108­109, 112, 114, 116, 118, 143,

145, 167, 212, 289 reification, 7, 81, 93, 174, 181, 183,

185, 187, 211-212, 215, 219-222 religion, 21, 40, 90, 92, 102, 134-137,

147, 155, 161, 217, 250, 294 remedy, 77-78, 80-82 remythologisation, 72, 79, 82 representation, 23, 33, 40, 47, 58, 72,

117, 120-121, 151, 187, 196,

219, 221, 224, 236, 238, 243,

271, 276, 281 research design, 94, 114-118,

120-121

resistance, 38, 71, 78, 88, 107, 137, 149, 158, 160, 165-166, 205, 234, 289, 293

revenge, 53, 196 revolution, 25, 59

rhetoric, 3, 30, 54, 130, 184, 211­212, 222, 238, 251, 272, 274, 280

Ricreur, Paul, 9, 68, 70-72, 76,

78-79, 82-84, 295 ritual, vii, ix-x, 4, 28, 30, 32, 51, 91,

99-100, 120, 250, 268-269, 271, 281-282

Roman mythology, ix, 1 Romanticism, 2, 4, 57, 156

Rowan, Brian, 16, 18, 29-30, 33, 35,

269-270 rule of law, 140, 142, 176 Russia, 4, 90, 102, 154-155, 218

S

sacred, 148, 268-269, 276 science, viii, x, 16, 25, 27, 35, 40, 60,

152-153, 167, 291 secularity, vii, 87, 90, 137, 145, 148,

161, 177, 249 security, v, 7, 35, 109, 119, 121, 136,

161, 174-175, 177, 187-188, 216, 219, 250

security sector reform, 35, 174 semiotics, 22, 24, 76, 120 sense of being, 21, 117 sentiment, 20, 26, 34, 163, 232 sequence (in narratives), 52, 91, 103,

131,133-140 Sierra Leone, 141, 144 sign, 17, 22-24, 68, 72, 75-77, 82,

94, 253 significance, 8, 20-21, 32, 34, 36, 40,

79, 121, 131, 133, 159, 203, 210-211, 213, 220, 224,

231- 233, 258, 264 signified, 24, 71, 73, 75, 77, 95, 253 signifier, 24, 68, 73, 78, 95, 253 silence, v-vi, 6, 55, 68, 72-76, 79, 84 silencing, 9, 113, 117, 242, 251-252,

256, 259, 261-262, 264 Sisyphus myth, 67-68, 73, 78, 84 slogan, 35, 219, 244 social constructionism, 2, 49 social movement, v, 25-26, 52-53, 60 social sciences, v, 51, 68, 88, 90-94, 108,

112, 114, 117-118, 120, 179, 297 socialisation, 20, 33, 36, 41 sociological institutionalism, 9, 268-269

Sorel, Georges, 16, 18, 25-26, 33,

59- 60 sovereignty, 101-102, 108, 110, 129, 139, 162, 177, 204, 291-293, 296 Soviet Union, 153, 155-156, 158, 162, 174-176, 220

speech, x, 24-25, 53, 72, 75-77, 83, 94-96,210, 252, 290 standpoint, 31, 112, 115, 212,

256, 264

Stanford School, 29, 268-269 statebuilding, 8, 21, 143, 147, 151,

161,167, 210-214, 216-221, 223-224,274, 278 state-formation, 139-140, 143, 166 statehood, 138-139, 143-144, 165, 167, 217

stereotype, 7, 23, 52, 54, 102-103, 130, 135-136, 138-139, 142-143

stolen language, 25, 252 story, ix-x, 18-19, 37, 53-54, 88, 92-93, 96, 102, 130, 142-143, 149, 152, 157, 229-230, 232, 234-235, 240, 249-250, 263 storyline, 59, 239, 243, 252, 256, 260, 262

story-telling, ix, 52, 93, 108, 109­112,113,233, 253 structuralism, 6-7, 9, 23, 90, 92, 94, 96-101, 107, 251, 253 struggles, 34, 97, 99, 162, 178, 233-234, 243, 252 subjectivity, 20, 31, 112-114, 152, 167, 233 suicide, 68, 74, 83 superstition, 87, 152 supplement, 73-74, 76-78, 80, 83 suspicion, 6, 32, 69, 79, 82-83, 101, 111, 259

sustainability, 147, 166, 214, 219, 223, 238, 241, 250, 263

symbol, 18, 24, 27, 33, 38, 51, 57, 89, 92, 94, 96, 100-101, 138,

185, 221, 223, 231-232, 235,

238- 240,258,261,290-291 symbolic forms, 18, 27, 290 symbolic power, 96, 101, 223,

261 syntagmatic structure, 7, 23, 92, 95, 101-103, 129, 131, 138

T

taboo, vi, 90-91, 99, 101, 168 tacit knowledge, v-vi, viii, 30, 51, 55,

72, 74-75, 82, 97, 102, 131, 290 tale, 68, 84, 89-90, 92-93, 96, 101,

129-131, 133-135,138, 140,

142-143, 145, 158, 193, 249, 251,255,260-264

Taliban, 158-159, 161-165, 200 technology, 29, 193-195, 200,

202-205, 240, 274 teleology, 176, 237, 291-292 temporality, 53, 70, 75, 149, 151,

232, 236-237, 253, 293 totalitarianism, 28, 149, 220 Toulmin, Stephen, 294 trace, 68, 72, 74, 76, 79 transcendence, 71, 73-75, 78, 80,

290-295 transparency, x, 113-116, 174,

239- 240, 255, 262

trope, 68, 76, 111, 121, 150, 161 truth, ix-x, 3, 15-16, 19-20, 22, 26,

31-32, 35, 37-39, 51, 59, 69,

71, 74-75, 77-78, 81, 147, 149, 151-153, 156, 161, 166, 178-179, 181, 184, 186, 193, 196, 220, 223, 232, 249, 253, 269, 289-290 truthfulness, 93, 117 tyranny, 134, 136-137, 140

U

Ullah, Noor, 135, 137 uncovering of myths, 3, 15-16, 23-24, 35, 38-39, 70, 107, 147

undecidability, 41, 69, 73-77,

80-83 under-complex analogy, 147, 167 United Kingdom, 8, 132, 196, 198, 203, 205, 278

United Nations, 20, 102, 174, 213, 235, 237, 278

UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 213-214, 217, 251, 254, 263

United States of America, 4, 8, 132, 153, 155, 195, 198, 200-201, 203, 205, 278

universalisation, 54, 57-58, 110, 176

universe, 17, 67, 88, 91-93, 295 university, 37-39

V

values, vi, viii, 17, 29-31, 40, 55-57, 69, 72, 88-90, 101, 112, 114, 116-117,154,176-177, 179­180, 185-187, 210, 214-215, 218-219, 221-223, 259-260, 270, 281-282, 294-295 verboten goal, 30, 55, 72 Vietnam War, 150, 155, 201, 204 villain, 58, 102, 180 violence, 7, 28, 31, 36, 58, 75-76, 78, 80, 82, 129-130, 138-140, 142-145, 160-161, 163, 165, 173-174, 176-178,182,184, 186-189, 193,195-198, 200-201, 209, 237, 278, 295

W

Walker, R.B.J., 9, 293-295 war, 1, 4, 7-8, 15, 20, 37, 53-54,

101, 121, 134, 141-142, 144, 154-155,157-159,164, 173-174, 176, 178-181, 184, 193-205, 237, 273

Cold War, 53, 173-174, 176, 183, 196, 250

Kosovo war, 4, 202

Kuwait, 162, 202 warfare, 1, 8, 141, 193-196, 201, 203-205

warlord, 1, 6-7, 24, 35, 101,

129-145

warlordism, 129-130, 133, 136, 139, 144

warrior, 193, 196-197

Weber, Cynthia, 3, 15, 35-36,

108, 153, 232, 234, 244,

249, 252

Weber, Max, 88, 139, 164 welfare, 56, 144, 239 the West, 53, 101, 110-111, 130, 138, 143, 150, 158, 163-164, 166, 176, 178, 183, 194, 198, 200-201,203-205, 224, 252 work of myth, 21, 34, 167 work on myth, 7, 21-22, 34, 38-39, 220-221, 223

World Bank, 214-215, 217, 279-280 world society, 2, 4, 39, 89, 244 world summits, 231, 235, 239, 275 World Wars, 20, 37, 176, 178, 194-199,201-203, 205 writing, written culture, v, x, 23, 33, 53, 76-77, 80, 92, 132, 149, 152, 157, 182, 197, 205, 218, 260, 296

writing IR, 112-116, 118, 120

Y

Yanow, Dvora, v-xii, 16, 18, 30-31, 35-36, 54-56, 68-75, 83, 174, 176-177,179, 295