Discursively (de-)constructing European foreign policy: Theoretical and methodological challenges

Jørgensen, Knud Erik

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“…This article acknowledges the value of discourse analysis in International Relations (IR) (Milliken 1999) and European Studies (Carta 2014;Jørgensen 2015;Manners and Murray 2016;Lynggaard 2019), combining it with migration policy studies. Theoretically, following Discursive Institutionalism (Schmidt 2008;2011), it investigates the explanatory power of ideas and discourse in migration policy (Boswell and Hampshire 2017), focusing on the conceptualisation of migration in the European Commission's recent discourse seeking to produce policy change.…”

Section: Conceptual and Theoretical Approachmentioning

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Towards aHuman and HumaneApproach? The EU Discourse on Migration amidst the Covid-19 Crisis

Panebianco

2021

The International Spectator

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In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, the EU discourse on migration has acquired a humanitarian dimension that deserves investigation. The European Commission in particular has provided a discursive conceptualisation of the European human and humane approach to migration, promoting a change in the EU migration frame. Qualitative discourse analysis suggests that the European Commission's programmatic discourse is not just a coordinative discourse among policy actors, it rather aims to shape the preferences of EU policy-makers emphasising strategic ideas and principles enshrined in EU Treaties. The Covid-19 crisis could thus be a window of opportunity for the European Union to embark on a new migration governance framed within a humane approach.

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Section: Conceptual and Theoretical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards aHuman and HumaneApproach? The EU Discourse on Migration amidst the Covid-19 Crisis

Panebianco

2021

The International Spectator

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“…Whilst this potentially leaves hostages to fortune, it also provides ways for academics to impact upon debates by providing richly contextual, systematically derived empiricalcontext sensitive evidence from a morass of often confusing text data, little of which usually makes it to the public domain, beyond the odd soundbite (Broad and Daddow, 2010). The articleIt finds much to commend Knud Erik Jørgensen's (2015) opinion, therefore, that there is still much potential formuch value in cross-7 fertilizingation between discourse theoryorists on the one hand and foreign policy analysists…”

Section: Interpreting Foreign Policy Narratives: a Discourse Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

GlobalBritain™: the discursive construction of Britain’s post-Brexit world role

Daddow

2019

Global Affairs

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Of the many dilemmas faced by Theresa May in negotiating Britain's withdrawal from the EU, finding a workable narrative to accompany Brexit proved one of the most intractable. She and her top government ministers alighted on the idea of "Global Britain", unpacked in this article using qualitative discourse analysis. It begins by positioning the contribution in the literatures on constructivist approaches to British foreign policy. Next, it explains the method used to select the relevant sources, develop the codebook and interpret the data. The third section outlines the policy architecture intended to make GlobalBritain™ practical reality. The final section unpacks the accompanying "vision" behind GlobalBritain™, which is framed as the story of Britain escaping a damaging period of confinement inside the EU "prison". The central argument is that GlobalBritain™ puts a marked Eurosceptic twist on a long-standing UK grand strategy aimed at remaining at the top table of global affairs using a pragmatic approach to international relationships. Always a troublesome arena for the conduct of its external relations, Brexit shows Britain continuing its half-in, half-out approach to European integration. The conclusion critically reflects on the research we can now conduct to discover more about this foreign policy narrative in-the-making.Like the politicians, scholars are still puzzled by the "why" and "how" of Brexit. This article contributes to the research on the "how" of Brexit by exploring the Conservative government's foreign policy vision for Britain's role in the world outside the EU. It first explains the contributions the research makes to constructivist-interpretivist foreign policy analysis. Next, it explains the method used to investigate the discursive substance of the GlobalBritain™ narrative: spatiality, temporality, ethicality and intertextuality. The third 3 section outlines the proposed policy architecture of GlobalBritain™. The final section reports the findings on the narrative side, showing how the discourse approach yielded comprehensive insights into this vision-in-the-making, bolstered by the politicians' colourful use of metaphor. The central argument is that GlobalBritain™ puts a Conservative Eurosceptic twist on long-standing British foreign policy traditions, making for a negative, defensive narrative that will likely limit its resonance to key stakeholders domestically and internationally. The conclusions reflect on the utility of using this method to connect discourse analysts and foreign policy analysts and, thereby, its potential to impact on the policy community by mainstreaming discourse analysis as a toolkit for conducting foreign policy evaluation.

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“…The Nordic school has not only focused on the political processes of the great powers in international politics and has given prominence to domestic politics and sub-national actors (Jönsson 1993). Based on this epistemological option and its historical identity and culture, the Nordic school has developed a sophisticated Foreign Policy Analysis (Weaver 1994;Carlsnaes 1993Carlsnaes , 1994Gustavsson 1999;Jørgensen 2015;Mellander, Mouritzen 2016). In this context, the Nordic school was decisive for the development of an EPA on the European Union (Larsen 2009;Jørgensen et.…”

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The Birth of International Relations as a Social Science: A Compared Analysis of the Anglo American World and Continental Europe

Mendes

2019

Austral

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This article provides a contextualization of the invention of International Relations (IR) in the Anglo-American world and Continental Europe. It presents a historiographic synthesis of the main institutional and scientific landmarks of the American, English, Nordic, French and German cases. It begins by presenting the main contexts and political-academic frameworks of the birth and formation of the discipline, with an emphasis on the USA. Secondly, it addresses the European developments of the IR discipline, highlighting the English and Nordic schools. Finally, it presents a brief contextualization of the rediscovery and affirmation of IR in Continental Europe, identifying the main institutional and scientific milestones of the French and German schools.

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Discursively (de-)constructing European foreign policy: Theoretical and methodological challenges

Cited by 22 publications

References 44 publications

Towards aHuman and HumaneApproach? The EU Discourse on Migration amidst the Covid-19 Crisis

Towards aHuman and HumaneApproach? The EU Discourse on Migration amidst the Covid-19 Crisis

GlobalBritain™: the discursive construction of Britain’s post-Brexit world role

The Birth of International Relations as a Social Science: A Compared Analysis of the Anglo American World and Continental Europe

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