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Framing Foreign Policy in India, Brazil and South Africa: On the Like-Mindedness of the IBSA States

By Jörg Husar (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
978-3-319-28714-0, 978-3-319-28715-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-28715-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3088918 bytes)
Series
Contributions to Political Science
Edition
1
Pages
XVIII, 257\273
Time added
2016-07-20 04:00:00
International Relations; Political Communication;

Description

This book analyses the India, Brazil, South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA), focusing on the communalities and differences in the way foreign policy is conceptualized in its member states. Utilizing 83 interviews with foreign policy makers and experts, as well as the analysis of 119 foreign-policy speeches, the author traces key shifts in official foreign policy discourse. In order to evaluate the degree of support for key IBSA Dialogue Forum concepts within national discourse, the author also examines the interplay between official and broader societal discourses on foreign policy. This analysis combines political science factors (foreign policy role conceptions) with linguistic factors, thus enabling a qualitative and quantitative comparison of different framings of foreign policy. Extensive empirical material collected during six months of field research in India, Brazil and South Africa allows the author to present a differentiated account of their alleged like-mindedness.

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