The politics of subjectivity in American foreign policy discourses

by Solomon, Ty

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Title Statements

Full title :The politics of subjectivity in American foreign policy discourses / Ty Solomon.

Summary

"Why are some discourses more politically efficacious than others? Seeking answers to this question, Ty Solomon develops a new theoretical approach to the study of affect, identity, and discourse--core phenomena whose mutual interweaving have yet to be fully analyzed in International Relations. Drawing upon Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Ernesto Laclau's approach to hegemonic politics, Solomon argues that prevailing discourses offer subtle but powerfully appealing opportunities for affective investment on the part of audiences. Through empirical case studies of the affective resonances of the war on terror and the rise and fall of neoconservative influence in American foreign policy, Solomon offers a unique way to think about the politics of identity as the construction of "common sense" powerfully underpinned by affective investments. He provides both a fuller understanding of the emotional appeal of political rhetoric in general and, specifically, a provocative explanation of the reasons for the reception of particular U.S. foreign policy rhetoric that shifted Americans' attitudes toward neoconservative foreign policy in the 1990s and shaped the post-9/11 "war on terror.""--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 246 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780472119462, 047211946X
oclc:ocn887977660
LC Classification:JZ1480
Dewey Decimal:327.73

1. Desire, identification, and the politics of hegemony -- 2. Identification and hegemony in the war on terror -- 3. Desire, discourse, and the rise of neoconservatism -- 4. "From near death to resurrection": neoconservative resonance in the 1990s.

Subjects

Außenpolitik Diplomatic relations Etats-Unis -- Relations extérieures International relations -- Philosophy Internationell politik Internationella relationer Political psychology Political Psychology -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Rela… Politique mondiale Politisk filosofi Psychologie politique -- États-Unis Subjectivity Subjektivität United States United States -- Foreign relations USA Utrikespolitik World politics