Essays about: "foreign policy and national identity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 essays containing the words foreign policy and national identity.
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1. The role of Islam in Russian foreign policy : A constructivist perspective
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to obtain a deeper and more conclusive understanding of Russia’s public foreign policy with regards to the religious aspect through the research question - What indications for a religious agenda with respect to Islam are expressed in Russian foreign policy as it is presented in the international arena? A Muslim belt with a non-Soviet identity emerged along Russia's southern border after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was thus vital for Russia to define its attitude towards the Islamist threat and included the Islamic factor in its foreign policy. READ MORE
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2. The battle of national identity in foreign policy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : 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. READ MORE
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3. Armenia between Russia and the West : Realpolitik and Identity Reconstruction in PM Pashinyan's Tweets
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : My research is focused on the relation between the foreign policy vector and national identity as projected by Armenia’s Prime Minister (PM) Nikol Pashinyan in the public sphere. This study is a search for expressions of ‘sameness’ and allegiance in the geopolitical balancing and reconstruction of Armenia’s foreign policy narrative, ideology and identity. READ MORE
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4. Tackling Brexit: An idea analysis on the similarities of the 2016 Brexit debate and the debate on foreign players in the Premier League
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Through an idea analysis, arguments for and against two different policy changes regulating foreign labor in the Premier League will be dissected in order to reveal the nationalist and liberal qualities within them. Arguments made by the Remain and Leave-campaigns during the 2016 Brexit debate, prior to the referendum are also reviewed. READ MORE
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5. American national identity at the start and end of the war in Afghanistan: A comparative narrative analysis of presidential speeches
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate the production of American national identity at the start and end of America’s warfare in Afghanistan, and to reach an understanding how the identity-construction legitimatized America’s actions at those moments. Based on a post structural understanding of identity as constructed and reproduced through action and speech, this study examines and compares speeches held by presidents George Bush and Joe Biden in relation to the start and end of the war. READ MORE
