5. Creating Martial Peace: Martial Politics and Militarised ‘Peace’ Enforcement in Canada

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Dedication and Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeping Myth Legitimises Warfare 1
5. 1. Putting the ‘Peace’ in Peacekeeping: Martial Peace, Martial Politics and the Objects of Our Peacekeeping Desires 10
6. 2. Myths, Peacekeeping and the Peacekeeping Myth 21
7. 3. Cultural Nostalgia and the Political Construction of the Canadian Peacekeeping Myth 42
8. 4. The Peacekeeping Myth and the War in Afghanistan 75
9. 5. Creating Martial Peace: Martial Politics and Militarised ‘Peace’ Enforcement in Canada 104
10. Conclusion: Myths, Militarism and Martial(ed) Peace 133
11. References 142
12. Index 177