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Foreword: Myths <> Silences; Dvora Yanow
Introduction: Myth and Narrative in International Politics; Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
PART I
THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
1. Myth in International Politics: Ideological Delusion and Necessary Fiction; Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
2. Beyond National Policy-Making: Conceptions of Myth in Interpretive Policy Analysis and Their Value for IR; Sybille Münch
3. The Precipice of Myth: Mythology/Epistemology; Robert Cooke
4. Bringing Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Bourdieu Together for a Post-structuralist Methodology to Analyse Myths; Catherine Goetze
5. How to Study Myths: Methodological Demands and Discoveries; Franziska Müller
PART II
EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS
6. Warlords and States: A Contemporary Myth of the International System; Catherine Goetze
7. Afghanistan and the 'Graveyard of Empires': Blumenberg, Under-complex Analogy and Basic Myths in International Politics; Florian P. Kühn
8. Mutually Implicated Myths: The Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and Militarism; Katharine Millar
9. Tales and Images of the Battlefield in Contemporary Warfare; Alastair Finlan
10. The Powerful Myth of International Community and the Imperative to Build States; Katarzyna Kaczmarska
11. Global Governance and the Myth of Civil Society Participation; Charlotte Dany and Katja Freistein
12. Myths of the Near Future: Paris, Busan and Tales of Aid Effectiveness; Franziska Müller and Elena Sondermann
13. Organising Babylon: the Coordination of Intervention and the Denial of Politics; Stephan Hensell
PART III
REFLECTIONS
14. Mythography: No Exit, No Conclusion?; Michael Loriaux and Cecelia Lynch.
Foreword: Myths <> Silences; Dvora Yanow
Introduction: Myth and Narrative in International Politics; Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
PART I
THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
1. Myth in International Politics: Ideological Delusion and Necessary Fiction; Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
2. Beyond National Policy-Making: Conceptions of Myth in Interpretive Policy Analysis and Their Value for IR; Sybille Münch
3. The Precipice of Myth: Mythology/Epistemology; Robert Cooke
4. Bringing Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Bourdieu Together for a Post-structuralist Methodology to Analyse Myths; Catherine Goetze
5. How to Study Myths: Methodological Demands and Discoveries; Franziska Müller
PART II
EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS
6. Warlords and States: A Contemporary Myth of the International System; Catherine Goetze
7. Afghanistan and the 'Graveyard of Empires': Blumenberg, Under-complex Analogy and Basic Myths in International Politics; Florian P. Kühn
8. Mutually Implicated Myths: The Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and Militarism; Katharine Millar
9. Tales and Images of the Battlefield in Contemporary Warfare; Alastair Finlan
10. The Powerful Myth of International Community and the Imperative to Build States; Katarzyna Kaczmarska
11. Global Governance and the Myth of Civil Society Participation; Charlotte Dany and Katja Freistein
12. Myths of the Near Future: Paris, Busan and Tales of Aid Effectiveness; Franziska Müller and Elena Sondermann
13. Organising Babylon: the Coordination of Intervention and the Denial of Politics; Stephan Hensell
PART III
REFLECTIONS
14. Mythography: No Exit, No Conclusion?; Michael Loriaux and Cecelia Lynch.