Textualising British politics: Deconstructing the subject of British foreign policy

Bulley, Daniel

doi:10.1057/bp.2009.10

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“…). Critical theorists and poststructuralists, by contrast, concentrate on the deconstruction of discourses that they argue form the background to foreign and security policy decision‐making (Campbell ; McDonald ; Fierke ; Burke ; Bulley ).…”

Section: The Study Of Foreign Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They argue that inter-subjectively generated ideas and norms rather than capabilities and institutions shape foreign policy behaviour (Onuf 1989;Wendt 1992Wendt , 1994Wendt , 1999Katzenstein 1996aKatzenstein , 1996bWeldes 1996Weldes , 1999Laffey and Weldes 1997;Finnemore and Sikkink 1999;Risse et al 1999). Critical theorists and poststructuralists, by contrast, concentrate on the deconstruction of discourses that they argue form the background to foreign and security policy decision-making (Campbell 1998;McDonald 2005;Fierke 2007;Burke 2008;Bulley 2009).…”

Section: The Study Of Foreign Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Introduction: Interpreting British Foreign Policy

Bevir¹,

Daddow²,

Hall³

2012

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Section: The Study Of Foreign Policymentioning

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Section: The Study Of Foreign Policymentioning

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Introduction: Interpreting British Foreign Policy

Bevir¹,

Daddow²,

Hall³

2012

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…A variety of International Relations scholars have applied the work of Jacques Derrida to issues such as memory (Pinkerton 2012), resistance (Hirst 2015) and foreign policy (Bulley 2009), and to deconstruct the writings of theorists such as Michael Walzer (O'Callaghan 2013) and Hedley Bull (Edkins and Zehfuss 2005). Aspects of his thought have also been applied to the Bosnian war, most notably by Campbell (1998), who uses Derridean terms such as ontopology and différance to discuss the fixing of identity through territorial representation and argue for a radical form of multiculturalism as a response to the war.…”

Section: Derrida Undecidability and The Supplementmentioning

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Deconstructing Dayton: Ethnic Politics and the Legacy of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pinkerton¹

2016

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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Twenty years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) which brought the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to an end, the dysfunctional nature of the Bosnian state means that the question of how political actors in BiH engage with the DPA as a response to the war remains vitally important. This article argues that moving beyond the ethnicisation of politics in BiH enacted by the DPA can be achieved by challenging the understandings of the war which informs the DPA while simultaneously challenging the effects of these understandings in the present. By advancing what I term a 'deconstructive conclusion' of the DPA, this article demonstrates the practical utility of Jacques Derrida's thought for engaging with the legacy of war in BiH.

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“…What if he or she, like many of his or her colleagues within academia, however careful to avoid the predominant language of British foreign policy (e.g. Bulley 2009), is marginalised such that whatever he or she says has little chance of having an impact? What then for rethinking British foreign policy?…”

Section: Britain's Role In the World And The Academic And Political Fmentioning

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Rethinking Britain'sRole in the Worldfor a New Decade: The Limits of Discursive Therapy and the Promise of Field Theory

McCourt¹

2010

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Debate over the future of British foreign policy will doubtless invoke Britain's 'role in the world', but the interconnection between Britain's role as an analytical concept within the academic field and as a category within the political field renders this starting point problematic. It underpins a tendency to take descriptive statements for objective analysis, leaving the language of British foreign policy saturated with clichés and tropes-like the 'special relationship'-that constitute rather than describe Britain in the world. Given this, the present article assesses two theoretical approaches to UK foreign policy: discursive 'therapy', which denaturalises this language, and is both necessary but limited in its impact; and field theory, which enables a move beyond the level of discourse to the structure of British foreign policy knowledge and expertise creation. The latter approach is particularly promising for the attempt to say something new about Britain in world politics for the 2010s.

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Textualising British politics: Deconstructing the subject of British foreign policy

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Introduction: Interpreting British Foreign Policy

Introduction: Interpreting British Foreign Policy

Deconstructing Dayton: Ethnic Politics and the Legacy of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rethinking Britain'sRole in the Worldfor a New Decade: The Limits of Discursive Therapy and the Promise of Field Theory

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