Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis

Name: Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

In this book Henrik Larsen presents discourse analysis as an alternative approach to foreign policy analysis through an extensive empirical study of British and French policies towards Europe in the 1980s. > Henrik Larsen presents discourse analysis as an alternative approach to foreign policy analysis. Through an extensive empirical study of British and French policies towards Europe in the 1980s, he demonstrates the importance of political discourse in shaping foreign policy.The author discusses key theoretical problems within traditional belief system approaches and proposes an alternative one: political discourse analysis. The theory is illustrated through detailed analyses of British and French discourses on Europe, nation/state security and the nature of international relations. > Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Discourse Analysis and Foreign Policy. 3. The British Political Discourse in the 1980s on the Concepts of Nation/State, Europe, Security and the Nature ofK