INFLUENCE OF POWER NARRATIVES ON THE FORMATION OF THE US FOREIGN POLICY IDENTITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Iu. Tsyrfa

Abstract


Since today the constructivist study of international relations puts the social components of their formation in the foreground, the foreign policy identity of a state becomes primary thing in determining its national interests and its foreign policy course. Accordingly, the goal of this article is to determine the complex influence of power narratives on the formation of the US foreign policy identity in the 21st century in the context of transformation of the domestic political matrix and redistribution of the influence between various political forces in this country. To achieve this goal, the author used the following research methods: the system analysis method, while determining the theoretical and methodological foundations for studying the phenomenon of foreign policy identity; the method of analogies and comparisons, while considering the power and political organization and institutionalization of the spatial structure of government in the United States; the method of comprehensive analysis, while establishing the main indicators of effectiveness of the influence of power narratives on the formation of the US foreign policy identity; the method of factor analysis, while substantiating the need to use individual approaches in building power narratives of the American politicians. As a result, the author determined that the US authorities form their narratives using an exclusive approach to the construction of collective identity of the society. However, such an algorithm is quite successful while forming stable foreign policy identity of the US.

Key words: foreign policy identity, USA, power, narrative, G. Bush, B. Obama, War on Terror.


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References:

Altheide, D. (2004). Consuming Terrorism. Symbolic Interaction, vol. 27, no. 3, 287-308. [in English].

President Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address. (2002). The Washington Post, 29 January. (2020, November, 18). [in English].

Jewis, R. (2005). American Foreign Policy in a New Era. London: Routledge. [in English].

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, 2002. Official web-site of the U.S. Department of State. (2020, November, 18). [in English].

Sweet, D., McCue-Enser, M. (2010). Constituting ‘the People’ as Rhetorical Interruption: Barack Obama and the Unfinished Hopes of an Imperfect People. Communication Studies, vol. 61, no. 5, 602-622. [in English].

Jackson, R. (2011). Culture, Identity and Hegemony: Continuity and (the Lack of) Change in US Counterterrorism: Policy from Bush to Obama. International Politics, vol. 48, no. 2/3, 390-411. [in English].

Coe, K., Neumann, R. (2011). Finding Foreigners in American National Identity: Presidential Discourse, People, and the International Community. International Journal of Communication, no. 5, 819-840. [in English].

Maleševic, S. (2006). Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. [in English].

Gillis, J. R. (1996). Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [in English].

Huntington, S. P. (2004). Who Are We?: The Challenges to American National Identity. New York: Simon & Schuster. [in English].

Schlesinger, A. M. (1993). The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society. New York: Norton. [in English].

Stuckey, M. E. (2004). Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity. Lawrence, Kansas: The University Press of Kansas.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.26886/2414-634X.7(43)2020.7

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