Author: Ty Solomon
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047211946X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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An intriguing look at the role of affect, identity, and discourse in world politics and in the context of recent U.S. foreign policy
Author: Ty Solomon
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472120662
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Why are some discourses more politically efficacious than others? Seeking answers to this question, Ty Solomon develops a new theoretical approach to the study of affect, identity, and discourse—core phenomena whose mutual interweaving have yet to be fully analyzed in International Relations. Drawing upon Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory and Ernesto Laclau’s approach to hegemonic politics, Solomon argues that prevailing discourses offer subtle but powerfully appealing opportunities for affective investment on the part of audiences. Through empirical case studies of the affective resonances of the war on terror and the rise and fall of neoconservative influence in American foreign policy, Solomon offers a unique way to think about the politics of identity as the construction of “common sense” powerfully underpinned by affective investments. He provides both a fuller understanding of the emotional appeal of political rhetoric in general and, specifically, a provocative explanation of the reasons for the reception of particular U.S. foreign policy rhetoric that shifted Americans’ attitudes toward neoconservative foreign policy in the 1990s and shaped the post-9/11 “war on terror.”
Author: Lan Thi Hong Nguyen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: Kenneth W. Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: Thomas Colley
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472131443
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Compelling narratives are integral to successful foreign policy, military strategy, and international relations. Yet often narrative is conceived so broadly it can be hard to identify. The formation of strategic narratives is informed by the stories governments think their people tell, rather than those they actually tell. This book examines the stories told by a broad cross-section of British society about their country’s past, present, and future role in war, using in-depth interviews with 67 diverse citizens. It brings to the fore the voices of ordinary people in ways typically absent in public opinion research. Always at War complements a significant body of quantitative research into British attitudes to war, and presents an alternative case in a field dominated by US public opinion research. Rather than perceiving distinct periods between war and peace, British citizens see their nation as so frequently involved in conflict that they consider the country to be continuously at war. At present, public opinion appears to be a stronger constraint on Western defense policy than ever.
Author: Jack Holland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136207546
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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This book uses a comparative analysis to examine foreign policy discourses and the dynamics of the ‘War on Terror'. The book considers the three principal members of the Coalition of the Willing in Afghanistan and Iraq: the United States, Britain and Australia. Despite significant cultural, historical and political overlap, the War on Terror was nevertheless rendered possible in these contexts in distinct ways, drawing on different discourses and narratives of foreign policy and identity. This volume explores these differences and their origins, arguing that they have important implications for the way we understand foreign policy and political possibility. The author rejects prevalent interpretations of a War on Terror foreign policy discourse, in the singular, highlighting that coalition states both demonstrated and relied upon divergent policy framings to make the War on Terror possible. The book thus contributes to our understanding of political possibility, in the process correcting a tendency to view the War on Terror as a universal and monolithic political discourse. This book will be of much interest to students of foreign policy, critical security studies, terrorism studies, discourse analysis, and IR in general.
Author: William S Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125931
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Following costly U.S. engagement in two wars in the Middle East, questions about the appropriateness of American military interventions dominate foreign policy debates. Is an interventionist foreign policy compatible with the American constitutional tradition? This book examines critic Irving Babbitt’s (1865–1933) unique contribution to understanding the quality of foreign policy leadership in a democracy. Babbitt explored how a democratic nation’s foreign policy is a product of the moral and cultural tendencies of the nation’s leaders, arguing that the substitution of expansive, sentimental Romanticism for the religious and ethical traditions of the West would lead to imperialism. The United States’ move away from the restraint and order of sound constitutionalism to involve itself in the affairs of other nations will inevitably cause a clash with the “civilizational” regions that have emerged in recent decades. Democracy and Imperialism uses the question of soul types to address issues of foreign policy leadership, and discusses the leadership qualities that are necessary for sound foreign policy.
Author: Amanda Swain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780355519822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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These postwar discourses indexed anxiety about a series of well-noted economic, social, and geographic transformations reorganizing the post-World War Two United States, especially the rise of both economic and social forms of massification. This growing presence of the mass in postwar U.S. culture clashed with the rhetoric advanced by Cold War containment politics: with individualism deeply entrenched as the U.S. grounds for thinking subjectivity--as the individual constituted the economic (self-interested, choice-making actor), the political (autonomous, rational actor), and the ethical (self-conscious moral actor) subject--mass culture seemed to point toward the threats of Soviet communism, ideological conformism, and scientific determinism. The prevailing response to such anxiety was mythologization of the self-sufficient, autonomous, and rational individual.
Author: Christine Agius
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526110244
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that deal with citizenship, security, migration, subjectivity, memory, exclusion and belonging, and space and place. It explores the political and social effects and possibilities of identity practices, discourses and policies.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004470506
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Critical Approaches to International Relations: Philosophical Foundations and Current Debates covers the most influential approaches within critical IR scholarship with a particular focus on historical heritage and philosophical roots they built upon and current directions of research they propose.
