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Anand, Dibyesh. and Kaul, Nitasha. "War of the Wor(l)ds: Great Power Democracies winning Hearts and Minds?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69418_index.html>

Anand, D. and Kaul, N. , 2005-03-05 "War of the Wor(l)ds: Great Power Democracies winning Hearts and Minds?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69418_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The international events of the last few years have provided a remarkable demonstration of the discursive construction of perspectives on social life and human actions. In this paper, we wish to focus upon the ongoing 'war on terror' in terms of it being presented as 'democracies doing good for humanity in the long run', and examine the governmental rhetoric on this in the UK. We argue that this rhetoric is influential in revising the notion of a modern democratic state that claims to represent moral concerns in terms of the nostalgia for promoting civilisation. While Blair's UK has been a close ally of the Bush administration, there is also a dominant perception that the UK acts as a 'sobering' influence to 'restrain' the 'brashness' of the Americans, and provides a link between them and the rest of the world. This places the UK in what is seen as an important 'broker's role' in international relations. Its suitability for this role has been attributed by some to its previous experience with the British empire (witness the media representation of British soldiers playing football with the Iraqis). We analyse the argument that there is a responsibility upon contemporary Western states to spread their message of democracy, free markets, development and human rights (for instance, as envisioned in the National Security Strategy 2002). In this endeavour the ends justify the means (from military aggression to 'moral' statements such as Blair's 'Africa is a scar upon the conscience of the world'). What is especially interesting is the way in which notions of liberation/emancipation or a greater common good are used in this current discourse to construct suitable candidates requiring intervention at specific times and places (the 'target liberatees' being Afghan women in 2001, or Iraqi shi'ias in 2003). We will draw upon Prime Minister Blair's selected speeches to provide an account of how UK's war of words is being constructed and presented to domestic and international audiences. There is a great use of moral rhetoric, and newer strategies for dealing with oppositional public opinion (Blair has often gone out of his way to stress the validity of those who oppose the war from their perspectives, however he adds the I believe, which has been his important touchstone).

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