When are strategic narratives effective? The shaping of political discourse through the interaction between political myths and strategic narratives

Partisan views of Russia: Analyzing European party electoral manifestos since 1991

“…in various networks or by cooperating with various Russian agents (Hénin, 2016;Krekó et al, 2015;Polyakova, 2014;Schmitt, 2017Schmitt, , 2018.…”

Democracy in Indonesian Strategic Narratives. A New Framework of Coherence Analysis

“…Another approach to assessing effectiveness involves the relation between political myths and strategic narratives. Olivier Schmitt (2018: 488) suggests that a narrative is effective when it “resonates with local political myths,” and he provides the framework to better understand how political community interprets strategic narratives. The aim of this article is to suggest that coherence should be an integral part of the assessment of a state’s strategic narratives and, furthermore, of the effectiveness of this communication.…”

“…Scholars like Chiara de Franco (2012), Emile Simpson (2012), or Jens Ringsmose and Børgesen (2011) analysed strategic narratives and have investigated narratives in conflicts; more recently, Paul Bacon and Joe Burton (2018) and Joe Burton (2018) continue to apply the framework in security studies. The most recent publications show the tendency to broaden the scope of political analyses by investigating other issues: state identity (Pate, 2018), power (van Noort, 2018; 2019); relations between narrative and political myths (Schmitt, 2018), through the “plot and character” in elucidating the concept of democracy (Wells, 2019), use of narrative in political campaigns (Welsh, 2018), narrative of constructing Otherness for political purposes (Schissler et al, 2017), and “readiness” by investigating narrative in media (Seixas et al, 2019). 6 Moreover, the publication of Carolina van Noort (2018) proposes an analysis of coherence by investigating elements of competing narratives developed by states and national groups against an actor who creates the strategic narratives.…”

L’impact de la fragmentation des mémoires collectives nationales sur la politique étrangère : le cas de la France

“…Ainsi, durant la Guerre froide, les gouvernements se sont servi, chacun à leur manière, des mémoires officielles pour légitimer les grandes orientations de leur politique étrangère : il suffit de penser au « tabou » de l'Holocauste qui a permis aux gouvernements successifs de justifier le positionnement de l'Allemagne fédérale en « puissance civile » (Olick et Levy 1997). Même dans le contexte de la politique étrangère française, souvent considérée comme étant relativement indépendante des débats sociétaux, des liens étroits entre les récits stratégiques construits par les acteurs politiques et les mythes politiques partagés au sein de la société sont démontrés (Schmitt 2018).…”