Dr Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is a Senior Lecturer inPeacebuilding at Aberystwyth University, UK. Her current research focuses onways of knowing in conflict and intervention politics through projects ontransnational think tanks, urban legends of intervention, theatricalperformances during politicians’ field visits and, not least, myths ininternational politics.

• Notes on Contributors.- Foreword: Myths <> Silences; DvoraYanow.- Introduction: Myth andNarrative in International Politics; BeritBliesemann de Guevara.- PART I – THEORETICAL ANDMETHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS.- 1. Myth in International Politics: Ideological Delusion and Necessary Fiction; BeritBliesemann de Guevara.- 2. Beyond NationalPolicy-Making: Conceptions of Myth in Interpretive Policy Analysis and TheirValue for IR; SybilleMünch.- 3. The Precipice ofMyth: Mythology/Epistemology; RobertCooke.- 4. Bringing ClaudeLévi-Strauss and Pierre Bourdieu Together for a Post-structuralist Methodologyto Analyse Myths; CatherineGoetze.- 5. How to Study Myths:Methodological Demands and Discoveries; Franziska Müller.- PART II – EMPIRICALEXPLORATIONS.- 6. Warlords and States:A Contemporary Myth of the International System; CatherineGoetze.- 7. Afghanistan and the‘Graveyard of Empires’: Blumenberg, Under-complex Analogy and Basic Myths in InternationalPolitics; FlorianP. Kühn.- 8. Mutually ImplicatedMyths: The Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and Militarism; KatharineMillar.- 9. Tales and Images ofthe Battlefield in Contemporary Warfare; AlastairFinlan.- 10. The Powerful Myth of International Community and the Imperative to Build States; Katarzyna Kaczmarska.- 11. Global Governanceand the Myth of Civil Society Participation; Charlotte Dany and Katja Freistein.- 12. Myths of the Near Future: Paris, Busan and Tales of Aid Effectiveness; Franziska Müller and Elena Sondermann.- 13. Organising Babylon: the Coordination of Intervention and the Denial of Politics; Stephan Hensell.- PART III – REFLECTIONS.- 14. Mythography: NoExit, No Conclusion?; MichaelLoriaux and CeceliaLynch

Dr Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is a Senior Lecturer inPeacebuilding at Aberystwyth University, UK. Her current research focuses onways of knowing in conflict and intervention politics through projects ontransnational think tanks, urban legends of intervention, theatricalperformances during politicians’ field visits and, not least, myths ininternational politics.

• Notes on Contributors.- Foreword: Myths <> Silences; DvoraYanow.- Introduction: Myth andNarrative in International Politics; BeritBliesemann de Guevara.- PART I – THEORETICAL ANDMETHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS.- 1. Myth in International Politics: Ideological Delusion and Necessary Fiction; BeritBliesemann de Guevara.- 2. Beyond NationalPolicy-Making: Conceptions of Myth in Interpretive Policy Analysis and TheirValue for IR; SybilleMünch.- 3. The Precipice ofMyth: Mythology/Epistemology; RobertCooke.- 4. Bringing ClaudeLévi-Strauss and Pierre Bourdieu Together for a Post-structuralist Methodologyto Analyse Myths; CatherineGoetze.- 5. How to Study Myths:Methodological Demands and Discoveries; Franziska Müller.- PART II – EMPIRICALEXPLORATIONS.- 6. Warlords and States:A Contemporary Myth of the International System; CatherineGoetze.- 7. Afghanistan and the‘Graveyard of Empires’: Blumenberg, Under-complex Analogy and Basic Myths in InternationalPolitics; FlorianP. Kühn.- 8. Mutually ImplicatedMyths: The Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and Militarism; KatharineMillar.- 9. Tales and Images ofthe Battlefield in Contemporary Warfare; AlastairFinlan.- 10. The Powerful Myth of International Community and the Imperative to Build States; Katarzyna Kaczmarska.- 11. Global Governanceand the Myth of Civil Society Participation; Charlotte Dany and Katja Freistein.- 12. Myths of the Near Future: Paris, Busan and Tales of Aid Effectiveness; Franziska Müller and Elena Sondermann.- 13. Organising Babylon: the Coordination of Intervention and the Denial of Politics; Stephan Hensell.- PART III – REFLECTIONS.- 14. Mythography: NoExit, No Conclusion?; MichaelLoriaux and CeceliaLynch

Dr Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is a Senior Lecturer inPeacebuilding at Aberystwyth University, UK. Her current research focuses onways of knowing in conflict and intervention politics through projects ontransnational think tanks, urban legends of intervention, theatricalperformances during politicians’ field visits and, not least, myths ininternational politics.

• Notes on Contributors.- Foreword: Myths <> Silences; DvoraYanow.- Introduction: Myth andNarrative in International Politics; BeritBliesemann de Guevara.- PART I – THEORETICAL ANDMETHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS.- 1. Myth in International Politics: Ideological Delusion and Necessary Fiction; BeritBliesemann de Guevara.- 2. Beyond NationalPolicy-Making: Conceptions of Myth in Interpretive Policy Analysis and TheirValue for IR; SybilleMünch.- 3. The Precipice ofMyth: Mythology/Epistemology; RobertCooke.- 4. Bringing ClaudeLévi-Strauss and Pierre Bourdieu Together for a Post-structuralist Methodologyto Analyse Myths; CatherineGoetze.- 5. How to Study Myths:Methodological Demands and Discoveries; Franziska Müller.- PART II – EMPIRICALEXPLORATIONS.- 6. Warlords and States:A Contemporary Myth of the International System; CatherineGoetze.- 7. Afghanistan and the‘Graveyard of Empires’: Blumenberg, Under-complex Analogy and Basic Myths in InternationalPolitics; FlorianP. Kühn.- 8. Mutually ImplicatedMyths: The Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and Militarism; KatharineMillar.- 9. Tales and Images ofthe Battlefield in Contemporary Warfare; AlastairFinlan.- 10. The Powerful Myth of International Community and the Imperative to Build States; Katarzyna Kaczmarska.- 11. Global Governanceand the Myth of Civil Society Participation; Charlotte Dany and Katja Freistein.- 12. Myths of the Near Future: Paris, Busan and Tales of Aid Effectiveness; Franziska Müller and Elena Sondermann.- 13. Organising Babylon: the Coordination of Intervention and the Denial of Politics; Stephan Hensell.- PART III – REFLECTIONS.- 14. Mythography: NoExit, No Conclusion?; MichaelLoriaux and CeceliaLynch