1st Edition
Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis France, Britain and Europe
By Henrik Larsen
Copyright 1998
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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:... Read more
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 of International Relations. 4. The French Political Discourse in the 1980s on the concepts of Nation/State, Europe, Security and the Nature of International Relations. 5. British and French Policies Towards Europe in the 1980s - Application of the Discourse Framework. 6. Accounting for Foreign Policy: Discourse Analysis Versus Alternative Approaches. Bibliography. Figures.
Biography
Henrik Larsen
'This book deserves a wide readership and is to be welcomed on several levels' - Shaun Gregory, University of Bradford, UK
