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Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War

Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War

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Series: New International Relations

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0415335752
ISBN13: 9780415335751
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 16 2006
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity and foreign policy and an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis.

  • Part I offers a detailed discussion of the concept of identity, the intertextual relationship between official foreign policy discourse and oppositional and media discourses and of the importance of genres for authors' ability to establish themselves as having authority and knowledge. Lene Hansen devotes particular attention to methodology and provides explicit directions for how to build discourse analytical research designs
  • Part II applies discourse analytical theory and methodology in 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, discourse analysis and research methodology.

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