This volume brings together a team of eminent scholars from a wide range of disciplines -- including social psychology, political science and international relations -- to document the current thinking on the many ways in which narrative and metaphor function as cognitive and rhetorical instruments in discourse around politics and to explore the potential for the two perspectives to be employed more often in combination. It focuses particularly on the prevalence of dysfunctional political narratives and metaphors and the potential for them to be critiqued and effectively amended.

W.D. Crano, Preface. M Hanne, An Introduction to the 'Warring with Words' Project. P.L. Hammack, Mind, Story, Society: The Political Psychology of Narrative. M. Sinding, Governing Spirits: Body Politic Scenarios and Schemas in the French Revolution Debate. C. Bottici, The Politics of the Past: The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations. A.T.R. Wibben, On Narrative, Metaphor & the Politics of Security. M. Danner and M. Hanne, A Conversation with Mark Danner. M.P. Marks, Metaphors of International Cooperation. S. Wright and C. Shore, From Saving Private Ryan to Building Team America: Presidential Oratory and the Art of Interpellation. J. Liu and S.S. Khan, Nation Building through Historical Narratives in Pre-Independence India: Gandhi, Nehru, Savarkar, and Golwalkar as Entrepreneurs of Identity. J.S. Mio, Responses to Metaphors in Politics: Continued Explorations of the Metaphor Extension Hypothesis. L. Bougher, Cognitive Coherence in Politics: Unifying Metaphor and Narrative in Civic Cognition. W.D. Crano, Useful Strategies in the War of Words.