How to Make Wars Acceptable
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11218844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ernest L Moerk (California State University, Fresno, corresponding author), Faith Pincus (University of Iowa) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peace & Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-0508 • E-ISSN: 1468-0130 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/0149-0508.00139 |
| OpenAlex | W2088021529 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Qualitative analyses are presented of war‐declaration speeches, announcing the out‐break of World War I and World War II, given by the leaders of the major belligerent powers. Because extended war preparations and the staging of casus belli as justifications for war had made war a certainty, the artfully crafted speeches did more than declare war. Both defenders and attackers projected guilt, emphasized unity, produced a state of helpless conformity in citizens, and veiled expected suffering through euphemisms, indicating a broadly established vocabulary of motives. These similarities are contrasted with idiosyncratic features, conditioned by history or dynamics within states. In contrast to the defenders, the two attackers, Hitler and Mussolini, resorted extensively to mythology and mythologized history to arouse enthusiasm and, by implication, to promise great rewards
Belligerent · Certainty · Conformity · Declaration · Enthusiasm · Epistemology · Mythology · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · Classics · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.41 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |