The United States, India and the global nuclear order: narrative identity and representation

This book addresses the change in US nuclear foreign policy by focusing on three core categories of identity, inequality, and great power narratives. Building upon the theoretical paradigm of critical constructivism, the concept of the {u2018}state{u2019} is problematised by focusing on identity-rel...

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1. Verfasser: Pate, Tanvi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2018
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in US foreign policy
Routledge studies in US foreign policy
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Zusammenfassung:This book addresses the change in US nuclear foreign policy by focusing on three core categories of identity, inequality, and great power narratives. Building upon the theoretical paradigm of critical constructivism, the concept of the {u2018}state{u2019} is problematised by focusing on identity-related questions arguing that the {u2018}state{u2019} becomes a constructed entity standing as valid only within relations of identity and difference. Focusing on postcolonial principles, Pate argues that imperialism as an organising principle of identity/difference enables us to understand how difference was maintained in unequal terms through US nuclear foreign policy. This manifested in five great power narratives constructed around peace and justice; India-Pakistan deterrence; democracy; economic progress; and scientific development. Identities of {u2018}race{u2019}, {u2018}political economy{u2019}, and {u2018}gender{u2019}, in terms of {u2018}radical otherness{u2019} and {u2018}otherness{u2019} were recurrently utilised through these narratives to maintain a difference enabling the respective administrations to maintain {u2018}US{u2019} identity as a progressive and developed western nation, intrinsically justifying the US role as an arbiter of the global nuclear order
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ISBN:9781315173627
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