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Media and the politics of failure : great powers, communication strategies, and military defeats / Laura Roselle.
Van Pelt Library DS559.46 .R68 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roselle, Laura.
- Series:
- Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Mass media and the war.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Mass media--United States.
- Mass media.
- Communication in politics.
- History.
- United States.
- Communication in politics--United States.
- Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989--Mass media and the war.
- Afghanistan.
- Mass media--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union.
- Communication in politics--Soviet Union.
- War in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Summary:
- Great powers are not supposed to lose wars, so how do leaders explain military defeat when it happens? "Media and the Politics of Failure" analyzes the American experience in Vietnam and the Soviet experience in Afghanistan to draw larger conclusions about how and why political leaders explain the end of military involvement. In spite of differences in political and media systems, there are remarkable similarities between American and Soviet leaders' communication strategies. Great power identity and domestic politics shape an explanation of withdrawal that emphasizes success and invokes prestige. The factors that shape the construction of the story did not disappear with the end of the Cold War, thus this work offers important insights for current American and Russian military efforts.
- Contents:
- 1 Political Communication and Policy Legitimacy: Explaining Failure 1
- 2 War Waging and Reassessment: Vietnam 25
- 3 Withdrawal and Aftermath: Vietnam 49
- 4 War Waging and Reassessment: Afghanistan 79
- 5 Withdrawal and Aftermath: Afghanistan 103
- 6 Conclusions and a Post-Cold War Assessment 123
- Sources Consulted and Selected Bibliography 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403975256
- OCLC:
- 63703952
- Publisher Number:
- 9781403975256
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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