This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to
use discourse analysis to study foreign policy making. It provides
an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis and
a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and
foreign policy.
Part I examines the concept of identity and the intertextual
relationship between official foreign policy discourse and
oppositional and media discourses. It explains how genres can be as
significant as having authority and knowledge when authors and
politicians seek to establish themselves. Lene Hansen also presents
and explains a theory of the construction of identity in foreign
policy debates and demonstrates how competing discourses
destabilize each other and how the dynamic of self versus other,
pervades the process of foreign policy making.
Part II applies discourse analytical theory and methodology to a
detailed analysis of the Western debate on the Bosnian war. This
analysis includes a historical genealogy of the Western
construction of the Balkans as well as readings of the official
British and American policies, the debate in the House of Commons
and the US Senate, Western media representations, academic debates
and travel writing and autobiography.
Providing an introduction to discourse analysis and critical
perspectives on international relations this book will be essential
reading for students and scholars of international relations,
security studies and research methodology.
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