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For more than twenty-five years, the United States and Iran have been diplomatically estranged, each characterizing the other not only as a political adversary, but also as devious, threatening, and essentially evil. According to William O. Beeman, such demonization is a self-fulfilling prophecy, as both countries have embraced exactly the policies and rhetoric that would particularly threaten or insult the other. Drawing on his experience as a linguistic anthropologist, Beeman parses how political leaders have used historical references, religious associations, and the mythology of evil to inflame their own citizens against the foreign country and proposes a way out of this dangerous debacle.

The Great Satan vs. the Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other

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For more than twenty-five years, the United States and Iran have been diplomatically estranged, each characterizing the other not only... Read more

    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 15/04/2008
    ISBN13: 9780226041476, 978-0226041476
    ISBN10: 0226041476

    Number of Pages: 320

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    For more than twenty-five years, the United States and Iran have been diplomatically estranged, each characterizing the other not only as a political adversary, but also as devious, threatening, and essentially evil. According to William O. Beeman, such demonization is a self-fulfilling prophecy, as both countries have embraced exactly the policies and rhetoric that would particularly threaten or insult the other. Drawing on his experience as a linguistic anthropologist, Beeman parses how political leaders have used historical references, religious associations, and the mythology of evil to inflame their own citizens against the foreign country and proposes a way out of this dangerous debacle.

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