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Media and the politics of failure : great powers, communication strategies, and military defeats
- Title
- Media and the politics of failure : great powers, communication strategies, and military defeats / Laura Roselle.
- Author
- Roselle, Laura.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- 190 pages; 22 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication
- Subject
- Graubünden Regierung
- Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
- 1961-1989
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Mass media and the war
- Mass media > United States
- Communication in politics > United States
- Mass media > Soviet Union
- Communication in politics > Soviet Union
- War in mass media
- Communication in politics
- Mass media
- Mass media and war
- Afghanistan-Konflikt 1979-1989
- Kommunikationsstörung
- Kriegführung
- Massenmedien
- Niederlage
- Politische Kommunikation
- Vietnamkrieg
- Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
- Mass media > Russia
- Communication in politics > Russia
- Afghanistan > History > Mass media and the war. > Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
- Afghanistan
- Soviet Union
- United States
- USA
- Sowjetunion
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-181) and index.
- Contents
- Political communication and policy legitimacy: explaining failure -- War waging and reassessment: Vietnam -- Withdrawal and aftermath: Vietnam -- War waging and reassessment: Afghanistan -- Withdrawal and aftermath: Afghanistan -- Conclusions and a post-cold war assessment.
- ISBN
- 1403975256
- 9781403975256
- LCCN
- 2006041590
- 9781403975256
- OCLC
- ocm63703952
- 63703952
- SCSB-14472357
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library