US Politics, Propaganda and the Afghan Mujahedeen: Domestic Politics - and the Afghan Wa

Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline Fitzgibbon in Lecturer in History and Politics at University College Cork. Zusammenfassung Influential fundraising groups and senators in the US made enormous efforts in the First Afghan War to present the Mujahedeen as ‘freedom fighters’ – even while the CIA secretly armed them. A mass propaganda effort was launched, aimed at portraying parts of Afghanistan as victims of communist aggression. As we know now, many of those groups that were armed became the seedbeds for organisations like Al-Qaeda. Dr Jacqueline Fitzgibbon, through a forensic investigation of the American PR of the period, argues that this militarised and fractured Afghan society for a generation – partly resulting in the mess today. She examines the American efforts to suppress any reports which showed these forces as anti-western or anti ‘American values’, and instead to portray the arming of partisan groups, often an extremely dangerous course of action, as an example of American values in action. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. US Foreign Policy and Afghanistan: History, Context and Carter 2. The Reagan Administration: Foreign Policy influences and the Importance of Propaganda 3. The Reagan Doctrine, Propaganda and the Afghan Conflict 4. Justifying Escalation in Afghanistan 5. The Afghan Media Project 6. ‘The Road to Geneva and Beyond’: The Superpower Summit, Public Diplomacy and the Afghan Conflict 7. The Beginning of the End: The Geneva Accords and National Reconciliation Conclusion BibliographyIndex...

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Fitzgibbon
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2021
• EAN: 9780755637256
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-3725-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Library of Modern American History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Afghanistan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Military / United States, International Relations, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, United States of America, USA, Modern warfare, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General