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Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan
By Erika G. King
Copyright 2014
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Situating Obama’s end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan begins with a detailed comparison with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly employs two case studies of presidential and media... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Surging to Victory in the War on Terror; Chapter 2 Disrupting, Dismantling, and Defeating Al Qaeda; Chapter 3 War’s Surge-then-Exit through a Skeptical Media Lens; Chapter 4 Turning the Page on Operation Iraqi Freedom; Chapter 5 War’s Drawdown through a Censorious Media Lens; Chapter 6 Framing War’s Indecisive End;
Biography
Erika G. King is Professor of Political Science at Grand Valley State University. She previously also served as Chair of Political Science and Dean of Social Sciences at GVSU. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, and has published in the field of political communication and political psychology.
’This is an important book. Judiciously argued and meticulously researched, Erika King astutely deconstructs the nature of the disconnect between President Obama’s public rhetoric and the mainstream media’s post-mortem on the meaning and consequences of withdrawal from Iraq and the anticipated exit from Afghanistan. But significantly, as the country fades to black on the messy and ambiguous legacies of these two wars after over a decade of fighting, the still largely unexamined core assumptions of the Bush-Obama war on terror meta-narrative suggests distressing institutional failure by Congress, the press and the political establishment.’ Robert A. Wells, Thiel College, USA ’Much research has been done on the language of the War on Terror, between 2001 and 2003. This book offers a valuable new analysis of elite and media discourse during the War on Terror’s latter stages. Detailed research answers questions about change and continuity in the language of the War on Terror, as well as the evolving relationship between political and media discourses.’ Jack Holland, University of Surrey, UK ’Recommended.’ Choice 'Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan examines two case studies of presidential and media framing: the weeks surrounding the formal announcements of Obama’s December 2009 surge-then-exit strategy from Afghanistan; and the end of combat operations in Iraq in August 2010. ... Erika G. King’s compelling conclusions make this book is attractive to students interested in media framing, war studies, and foreign politics.' LSE Review of Books
