Post-structuralist genealogical discourse analysis of NSC 68
Post-structuralist genealogical discourse analysis of NSC 68
Author(s): Juraj Kalický, Ivana OndrejmiškováSubject(s): Political history, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Cold-War History
Published by: Wyższa Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego i Indywidualnego “Apeiron” w Krakowie
Keywords: discourse analysis; post-structuralism; discourse; realism; ideological and military threats;
Summary/Abstract: The article aims at providing a genealogical discourse analysis of the document United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, known as NSC 68, with a particular focus on the role that the discourse of NSC 68 played at the outset of the Cold War. The analytical basis of the research is the post-structuralist Foucauldian discourse analysis and the realist paradigm of international relations theory. These tools are applied to reveal the repercussions that the discourse of this document constituted, and, at the same time, the subject knowledge it offered to the U.S. political leaders. Via the scientific method of comparison, analysis and synthesis, the paper highlights the importance and role of the aforementioned discourse in formulating ideological differences and in the interpretation of threats when identifying state’s attitude and position in a new world of bipolar division.
Journal: Kultura Bezpieczeństwa. Nauka-Praktyka-Refleksje
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 38
- Page Range: 47-56
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
