Your Country, Our War
The Press and Diplomacy in Afghanistan
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 April 2018
- ISBN 9780190879402
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages298 pages
- Size 160x239x22 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Based on extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and eight years of interviews, this book reviews the dynamics between Afghan and U.S. journalists, and the global diplomatic power of the American press within the context of the post-9/11 era.
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Journalists are actors in international relations, mediating communications between governments and publics, but also between the administrations of different countries. American and foreign officials simultaneously consume the work of U.S. journalists and use it in their own thinking about how to conduct their work. As such, journalists play an unofficial diplomatic role. However, the U.S. news media largely amplifies American power. Instead of stimulating greater understanding, the U.S. elite, mainstream press can often widen mistrust as they promote an American worldview and, with the exception of some outliers, reduce the world into a tight security frame in which the U.S. is the hegemon. This has been the case in Afghanistan since 2001, particularly as emerging Afghan journalists have relied significantly on U.S. and other Western news outlets to report events within their government and their country.
Based on eight years of interviews in Kabul, Washington, and New York, Your Country, Our War demonstrates how news has intersected with international politics during the War in Afghanistan and shows the global power and reach of the U.S. news media, especially within the context of the post-9/11 era. It reviews the trajectory of the U.S. news narrative about Afghanistan and America's never-ending war, and the rise of Afghan journalism, from 2001 to 2017. The book also examines the impact of the American news media inside a war theater. It examines how U.S. journalists affected the U.S.-Afghan relationship and chronicles their contribution to the rapid development of a community of Afghan journalists who grappled daily with how to define themselves and their country during a tumultuous and uneven transition from fundamentalist to democratic rule. Providing rich detail about the U.S.-Afghan relationship, especially former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai's convictions about the role of the Western press, we begin to understand how journalists are not merely observers to a story; they are participants in it.
I've been waiting for a book like this. And here it is: a thoughtful, gripping account about how journalists have covered the war in Afghanistan and about how that coverage has both shaped and been shaped by the decisions of American political leaders. Katherine Brown's easy prose is matched only by her keen analysis of a country and a topic she knows better than anyone else. This book should be required reading in the White House, on Capitol Hill, the corridors of the Pentagon, and anywhere else people want to better understand the role of the press in advancing U.S. foreign policy.
Table of Contents:
Preface: Kabul
Chapter 1: Hamid Karzai vs. The New York Times
Chapter 2: 9/11 and the American Press
Chapter 3: Afghanistan in Americans' Imagination
Chapter 4: The Afghan Press
Chapter 5: The Modern Afghan Journalist
Chapter 6: U.S. Correspondents in Afghanistan
Chapter 7: Your Country, Our War
Chapter 8: The Diplomatic Dimension of News
Appendix I: Methodology
Appendix II: Interviews
Notes
Bibliography
Index
