Introduction

1. War, Discourse, and Peace
Adam Hodges

Part I. Justifying War

2. 'New World Coming': Narratives of the Future in U.S. Post-Cold War National Security Discourse
Patricia Dunmire

3. The Generic U.S. Presidential War Narrative: Justifying Military Force and Imagining the Nation
Adam Hodges

4. The Discursive Battlefield of the "War on Terror": Enabling Strategies for Garnering Public Support in the Rhetoric of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden
Anna Podvornaia

5. World of the Impolitic: A Critical Study of the British WMD Dossier
Aditi Bhatia

Part II. Negotiating Military Deployment

6. Culture Clash: Framing Peacekeeping and its Role in a Canadian Context
Janis Goldie

7. Promising without Speaking: Military Realignment and Political Promising in Japan
Chad Nilep

Part III. Responding to Armed Conflict

8. "Everyone Has Their Particular Part to Play": Commensuration in the Northern Irish and Palestinian Victims' Rights Movements
Candler Hallman

9. Reasonable Affects: Moroccan Family Responses to Mediated Violence
Becky Schulthies

Part IV. Promoting Peace

10. Performing Peace: The Framing of Silence in a Quaker Vigil
Anna Marie Trester

11. Narrating War and Peace at Battle Ruins: Okinawan Tourism-Activism Discourses
Taku Suzuki

Index