Nationalism in Japan’s contemporary foreign policy: a consideration of the cases of China, North Korea, and India
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...As Campbell (1992: 12) demonstrates, to construct their identity, states are continuously urged to articulate threats and others, constituting ‘a range of differences as intrinsically evil, irrational, abnormal, mad, sick, primitive, monstrous, dangerous or anarchical’ (Connolly 1991: 209-210)....
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...‘It is only through the discursive enactment of foreign policy that identity comes into being, but this identity is at the same time constructed as legitimization for the policy proposed’ (Hansen 2006: 21)....
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...Hansen (2006) thus depicts how subjects are constructed through positive signs on the one hand (linking), and negative ones on the other hand (differentiation)....
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...As identities are produced and reproduced through foreign policy discourse, there might be no national identity prior to and independent from foreign policy (Hansen 2006: 21, 28)....
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...Milliken (1999) discusses the application of discourse studies to the subject of IR and explains three theoretical presuppositions; discourse as system of significance, discourse productivity, and the play of practice....
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...The first concept assumes discourses as ‘structures of signification which construct social realities’ through defining various subjects and objects and imposing relational distinctions on them (Milliken 1999: 227)....
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...Although discourse analysis has not received much attention from mainstream IR scholars, recently it has become a more active area in IR (Milliken 1999: 225, Diez 2001: 5)....
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...Yet, nationalism is also an ideology that shapes the modern nation state, making liberal ideas of citizenship and civil society possible (Smith 1995)....
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...Smith (2001) also discusses the ‘internalization of...
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...making liberal ideas of citizenship and civil society possible (Smith 1995)....
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