Discourse and affect in foreign policy: Germany and the Iraq War

"Foreign and security policy have long been removed from the political pressures that influence other areas of policymaking. This has led to a tendency to separate the analytical levels of the individual and the collective. Using Lacanian theory, which views the subject as ontologically incompl...

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Main Author: Eberle, Jakub 1986- (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge 2019
Series:The new international relations
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Foreign and security policy have long been removed from the political pressures that influence other areas of policymaking. This has led to a tendency to separate the analytical levels of the individual and the collective. Using Lacanian theory, which views the subject as ontologically incomplete and desiring a perfect identity which is realised in fantasies, or narrative scenarios, this book shows that the making of foreign policy is a much more complex process. Emotions and affect play an important role, even where 'hard' security issues such as the use of military force are concerned. Eberle constructs a new theoretical framework for analysing foreign policy by capturing the interweaving of both discursive and affective aspects in policymaking. The author uses this framework to explain Germany's often contradictory foreign policy towards the Iraq crisis of 2002/2003, and the emotional, even existential, public debate that accompanied it. This book adds to ongoing theoretical debates in International Political Sociology and Critical Security Studies and will be required reading for all scholars working in these areas"--
Item Description:Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Warwick, 2016, titled Logics of foreign policy : discourse, fantasy and Germany's policies in the Iraq crisis
Physical Description:192 Seiten 9 Illustrationen
ISBN:9781138596894

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