Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War (New International Relations) - Hardcover

Hansen, Lene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415326532 ISBN 13: 9780415326537

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Lene Hansen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415326532
• ISBN 13: 9780415326537
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288