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Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age

Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age

Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age

Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age

Overview

A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230246270
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 05/31/2012
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 397
Product dimensions: 13.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

JAMES AULICH Professor in the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD), Manchester Metropolitan University, UK STEPHEN BADSEY Reader in Conflict Studies, the University of Wolverhampton, UK SUSAN A. BREWER Professor of History, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA NICHOLAS J. CULL Professor of Public Diplomacy, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA JO FOX Professor of Modern History, Durham University, UK STEFAN GOEBEL Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, the University of Kent, UK PHILIP HAMMOND Professor of Media and Communications, London South Bank University, UK OLIVER JOHNSON Research Associate in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, the University of Sheffield, UK ROB JOHNSON Deputy Director of the Changing Character of War team and Lecturer in the History of War at the University of Oxford, UK PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY Journalist and author, including of The First Casualty SIAN NICHOLAS Senior Lecturer in History, Aberystwyth University, UK CATRIONA PENNELL Lecturer in History, the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, UK RICHARD OVERY Professor of History, the University of Exeter, UK FRANSJOHAN PRETORIUS Professor of History at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. GARY D. RAWNSLEY Professor of International Communications at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK ULF SCHMIDT Professor of Modern History, the University of Kent, UK BERNY SÈBE Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, the University of Birmingham, UK PHIL TAYLOR was Professor of International Communications and founder member and former Director of the Institute of Communications Studies, the University of Leeds, UK DAVID WELCH Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of War and Propaganda & Society, the University of Kent, UK JAY WINTER Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University, USA

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Figures ix

Acknowledgements xi

Notes on the Contributors xii

1 Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and The Modem Age Jo Fox David Welch 1

Part I Empire, War and The Modern Age: Imperialism and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century

2 Justifying the South African War: Boer Propaganda, 1899-1902 Frans-Johan Pretorius 23

3 Justifying 'New Imperialism': The Making of Colonial Heroes, 1857-1902 Berny Sèbe 46

Part II The First World War: Conflict and Aftermath

4 War Aims and the 'Big Ideas' of 1914 David Welch 71

5 'Why We Are At War': Justifying War in Britain, 1914 Catriona Pennell 95

6 Advertising and the Public in Britain during the First World War James Aulich 109

7 Justifying Chemical Warfare: The Origins and Ethics of Britain's Chemical Warfare Programme, 1915-1939 Ulf Schmidt 129

8 Britain's 'Last Crusade': From War Propaganda to War Commemoration, c. 1914-1930 Stefan Goebel 159

Part III The Second World War: Justifying Global Conflict

9 Saving Civilization: British Public Opinion and the Coming of War in 1939 Richard Overy 179

10 'There will be no war': The Daily Express and the Approach of War, 1938-39 Sian Nicholas 200

11 Fighting for Freedom: The Second World War and a Century of American War Propaganda Susan A. Brewer 218

12 From War Talk to Rights Talk: War Aims and Human Rights in the Second World War Jay Winter 236

Part IV Cold War: Justifying Ideologies

13 'The Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea': How Beijing Sold the Korean War Gary D. Rawnsley 251

14 Aesthetic Enemies: The 'Two Cultures' Theory at the Outset of the Cold War Oliver Johnson 270

15 Justifying Vietnam: The United States Information Agency's Vietnam Campaign for International Audiences Nicholas J. Cull 288

Part V Into the Modern Age: Justifying War in the Twenty-first Century

16 Humanitarian War: Justifying Western Military Intervention, 1991-2001 Stephen Badsey 313

17 Cosmopolitanism and Precautionary War Philip Hammond 327

18 Justifying the Iraq War and Managing the Media: A Comparative Historical Analysis Rob Johnson 341

19 Losing the (Information) War on Terror Philip M. Taylor 362

20 The Role of the Media in Justifying and Promoting War Phillip Knightley 377

Select Bibliography 384

Index 390

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