India's Foreign Policy Discourse and Its Conceptions of World Order : the quest for power and identity
By: Wojczewski, Thorsten.
Series: Routledge studies on challenges, crises and dissent in world politics. Publisher: New York Routledge 2018Description: vi, 222p.ISBN: 9781138297180.Subject(s): Philosophy-1989 -- Foreign relations -- World politics -- IndiaDDC classification: 327.54 Summary: This book offers the first systematic investigation of the world order models in India's foreign policy discourse. By examining how the signifier 'world order' is endowed with meaning in the discourse, it moves beyond Western-centric IR and sheds light on how a state located outside the Western 'core' conceptualizes world order. Drawing on poststructuralism and discourse theory, the book proposes a novel analytical framework for studying foreign policy discourses and understanding the changes and continuities in India's post-cold war foreign policy. It shows that foreign policy and world order have been crucial sites for the (re)production of India's identity by drawing a political frontier between the Self and a set of Others and placing India into a system of differences that constitutes.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
This book offers the first systematic investigation of the world order models in India's foreign policy discourse. By examining how the signifier 'world order' is endowed with meaning in the discourse, it moves beyond Western-centric IR and sheds light on how a state located outside the Western 'core' conceptualizes world order. Drawing on poststructuralism and discourse theory, the book proposes a novel analytical framework for studying foreign policy discourses and understanding the changes and continuities in India's post-cold war foreign policy. It shows that foreign policy and world order have been crucial sites for the (re)production of India's identity by drawing a political frontier between the Self and a set of Others and placing India into a system of differences that constitutes.
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