EAN: 9780415335751

SECURITY AS PRACTICE - LENE HANSEN KARTONIERT (TB)

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 ofthe 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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