Metaphorical World Politics

by Beer, Francis A.; Landtsheer, Christ'l de

• ISBN13: 9780870137266
• ISBN10: 0870137263
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-30
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

Metaphorical World Politicsargues that language and metaphor are important parts of international political reality. Metaphors and world politics have appeared together many times in recent history. The blended space that results is metaphorical world politics, a real- world game for political and scientific actors. This collection picks up the challenge to unravel the game, to examine its rules, to clarify the mixture of images and facts that is so real in politics but so exceptional in science. Scholars have studied metaphor mostly from a linguistic or a literary point of view. This work forces those primarily interested in metaphors to think about applications and implications beyond the text. Others concerned mainly with world politics may consider how metaphors may help to energize and structure international political thought and action. Scholars have most often studied world politics embedded in so-called "facts." Metaphorical World Politicsshows that facts are misleading in their compactness, that facts are often meaningless, that metaphors in contrast are energetic processors of meaning, and that facts in world politics are nothing more than weak emulsions of metaphor. This work outlines the general place of metaphor on the map of politics and highlights the location of specific metaphors on the political terrain.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
List of Tables	viii
Foreword	ix
Introduction. METAPHORS, POLITICS, AND WORLD POLITICS	5	(50)
Francis A. Beer and Christ'l De Landtsheer
Section 1. METAPHORICAL DEMOCRACY	55	(56)
Embodied Meaning in American Public Discourse during the Cold War	59	(16)
Richard B. Gregg
Democracy, War, and Decivilizing Metaphors of American Insecurity	75	(16)
Robert L. Ivie
The Causal Power of Metaphor: Cueing Democratic Identities in Russia and Beyond	91	(20)
Richard D. Anderson, Jr.
Section 2. METAPHORICAL WAR AND PEACE	111	(82)
Sports Metaphors and Public Policy: The Football Theme in Desert Storm Discourse	121	(20)
Dale A. Herbeck
Paths through the Minefields of Foreign Policy Space: Practical Reasoning in U.S. Senate Discourse about Cambodia	141	(22)
Francis A. Beer and G. Robert Boynton
Talking about Srebrenica: Dutch Elites and Dutchbat. How Metaphors Change during Crisis	163	(30)
Christ'l De Landtsheer and Ilse De Vrij
Section 3. METAPHORICAL GLOBALIZATION	193	(68)
The Power of Metaphors and the Metaphors of Power: The United States in the Cold War and After	199	(18)
Keith L. Shimko
Metaphors of U.S. Global Leadership: The Psychological Dynamics of Metaphorical Thinking during the Carter Years	217	(20)
Jerel A. Rosati and Steven J. Campbell
Megametaphorics: Rereading Globalization and Virtualization as Rhetorics of World Politics	237	(24)
Timothy W. Luke
Conclusion. METAPHORICAL WORLD POLITICS	261	(4)
Francis A. Beer and Christ'l De Landtsheer
References	265	(50)
About the Contributors	315	(4)
Indices	319