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The battle of national identity in foreign policy

Sohail, Danial LU (2023) STVK02 20222
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This paper endeavours to study whether Brexit could be Britain’s way to find its national role in the international arena by analysing three levels of theory analysis from foreign policy analysis operating discourse analysis in its different forms. Initially, individual decision-makers are scrutinised by operating psychological discourse analysis on three Prime Minister’s speeches to learn the primary actor’s construction of the world. Further, domestic politics with Putnam’s two-level game lenses is studied operating critical discourse analysis to analyse the language use of leave and remain side, the major parties, Labour and Conservative, as well as the media during the EU referendum campaign. Moreover, national identity operating... (More)
This paper endeavours to study whether Brexit could be Britain’s way to find its national role in the international arena by analysing three levels of theory analysis from foreign policy analysis operating discourse analysis in its different forms. Initially, individual decision-makers are scrutinised by operating psychological discourse analysis on three Prime Minister’s speeches to learn the primary actor’s construction of the world. Further, domestic politics with Putnam’s two-level game lenses is studied operating critical discourse analysis to analyse the language use of leave and remain side, the major parties, Labour and Conservative, as well as the media during the EU referendum campaign. Moreover, national identity operating discourse theory examines the nation’s construction of a national role from the postcolonialism concept to comprehend whether Brexit could help Britain accomplish its goal of becoming a ‘Global Britain’. The timeframe of this paper is from Cameron’s declaration of an EU referendum till the end of the transition period studying how the past affects the future and plays a role in Britain’s national role construction that has led to Brexit. (Less)
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author
Sohail, Danial LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20222
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Brexit, National Identity, Individual Decision-Makers, Domestic Politics, Postcolonialism
language
English
id
9105593
date added to LUP
2023-02-22 13:46:34
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2023-02-22 13:46:34
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  abstract     = {{This paper endeavours to study whether Brexit could be Britain’s way to find its national role in the international arena by analysing three levels of theory analysis from foreign policy analysis operating discourse analysis in its different forms. Initially, individual decision-makers are scrutinised by operating psychological discourse analysis on three Prime Minister’s speeches to learn the primary actor’s construction of the world. Further, domestic politics with Putnam’s two-level game lenses is studied operating critical discourse analysis to analyse the language use of leave and remain side, the major parties, Labour and Conservative, as well as the media during the EU referendum campaign. Moreover, national identity operating discourse theory examines the nation’s construction of a national role from the postcolonialism concept to comprehend whether Brexit could help Britain accomplish its goal of becoming a ‘Global Britain’. The timeframe of this paper is from Cameron’s declaration of an EU referendum till the end of the transition period studying how the past affects the future and plays a role in Britain’s national role construction that has led to Brexit.}},
  author       = {{Sohail, Danial}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The battle of national identity in foreign policy}},
  year         = {{2023}},
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