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Dominant Narratives - From The Cold War Consensus To The War On Terror - Have Often Served As The Foundation For Debates Over National Security. Weaving Current Challenges, Past Failures And Triumphs, And Potential Futures Into A Coherent Tale, With Well-defined Characters And Plot Lines, These Narratives Impart Meaning To Global Events, Define The Boundaries Of Legitimate Politics, And Thereby Shape National Security Policy. However, We Know Little About Why Or How Such Narratives Rise And Fall. Drawing On Insights From Diverse Fields, Narrative And The Making Of Us National Security Offers Novel Arguments About Where These Dominant Narratives Come From, How They Become Dominant, And When They Collapse. It Evaluates These Arguments Carefully Against Evidence Drawn From Us Debates Over National Security From The 1930s To The 2000s And Shows How These Narrative Dynamics Have Shaped The Policies The United States Has Pursued-- In The Winter Of 2007, As Americans Grew Increasingly Weary Of A Protracted And Seemingly Unwinnable War In Iraq, President George W. Bush Bucked The Political Winds And, Rather Than Bring The Troops Home, Called For Dispatching More Forces, A Surge. This Would

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Author

Ronald R. Krebs

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781322124513

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Military, Computer Science, History

Rating

3.39 / 5 (94 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14