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Protecting British soldiers in Afghanistan: UK strategic culture and the politicisation of force protection / Clegg, Mark

Clegg, Mark	Journal Article
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2012.

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The British experience in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade has been characterised by an unprecedented focus on force protection. Far from remaining confined to the military domain, force protection evolved into a highly politicised issue, becoming a chosen symbol of governmental competence (or lack thereof) in the party-political confrontation of the 2010 general election. But to what extent was this politicisation an indication of more profound changes in British strategic culture? Mark Clegg shows how the political discourse of force protection between 2006 and 2010 did not, in fact, spill over into a strategic cultural change, but suggests that the issue will remain at the centre of British public debate for a long time to come.

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Iraq ; Afghanistan ; Britain ; British Experience ; British Strategic Culture ; British Public Debate

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Thinking alike? salience and metaphor analysis as cognitive app / Oppermann, Kai; Spencer, Alexander

Oppermann, Kai	Journal Article
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2013.

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The article brings together two cognitive approaches to the analysis of foreign policy: salience and metaphor analysis. Issue salience and metaphors relate to cognitive heuristics that speak to different aspects of the cognitive representation of foreign policy problems which complement each other: the concept of salience looks at the priming of issues in the foreign policymaking environment; metaphors relate to the framing of these issues. The article shows how both cognitive concepts can help the other address individual blind spots. While analyzing the salience of foreign policy issues tells us what issues actors attend to, metaphor analysis can shed light on how they frame these issues and indicate what policy options are made possible. At the same time, salience can help metaphor analysis identify why certain metaphors resonate better in public discourse than others. To briefly illustrate the potential of thinking salience and metaphor analysis together, the article looks into the British public debate about international terrorism and the "war on terror".

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International terrorism ; War on Terror ; British Public Debate ; Metaphor Analysis ; Foreign Policy

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