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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777431503321

Autore

Hansen Lene

Titolo

Security as practice : discourse analysis and the Bosnian war / / Lene Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-134-33961-5

0-203-23633-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 259 pages) : illustrations

Collana

New international relations

Disciplina

327.1/01

Soggetti

Language and international relations

Discourse analysis

Bosnia and Herzegovina History Partition, 1995

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The theory and methodology of discourse analysis -- Discourse analysis, identity and foreign policy -- Beyond the other : analyzing the complexity of identity -- Intertextualizing foreign policy : genres, authority and knowledge -- Research designs: asking questions and choosing texts -- A discourse analysis of the western debate on the Bosnian War -- The basic discourses in the Western debate over Bosnia -- Humanitarian responsibility versus 'lift and strike' : tracing trans-Atlantic policy discourses -- Writing the past, predicting the future: travelers, realism and the politics of civilization -- The failure of the West? The evolution of the genocide discourse and the ethnics of inaction.

Sommario/riassunto

"This 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."--Jacket.