Jörg Husar

Framing Foreign Policy in India, Brazil and South Africa

On the Like-Mindedness of the IBSA States

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the India, Brazil, South Africa Dialogue Forum(IBSA), focusing on the communalities and differences in the way foreign policyis conceptualized in its member states. Utilizing 83 interviews with foreignpolicy makers and experts, as well as the analysis of 119 foreign-policyspeeches, the author traces key shifts in official foreign policy discourse. Inorder to evaluate the degree of support for key IBSA Dialogue Forum conceptswithin national discourse, the author also examines the interplay betweenofficial and broader societal discourses on foreign policy. This analysiscombines political science factors (foreign policy role conceptions) withlinguistic factors, thus enabling a qualitative and quantitative comparison ofdifferent framings of foreign policy. Extensive empirical material collectedduring six months of field research in India, Brazil and South Africa allowsthe author to present a differentiated account of their alleged like-mindedness.

Produktdetails

• Contributions to Political Science
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-28714-0
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9783319287140
• ISBN-10: 3319287141
• Artikelnr.: 44464552

Autorenporträt

Jörg Husar is Programme Officer for Latin America at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and currently a visiting lecturer at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po). The present book originated as his doctoral thesis during his involvement in the research project "Emerging Powers as Partners of German Foreign Policy" (2006-2011) at the German Institute of International and Security Affairs (SWP). His field research was supported by foreign policy think tanks in the three IBSA countries: Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais (CEBRI, Rio de Janeiro), South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA, Johannesburg) and Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS, New Delhi). In 2007 and 2010 he served as visiting lecturer in Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin, including a course on the IBSA Dialogue Forum.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- IBSA: Three Like-Minded States?- A Comparative Approach to Foreign Policy Discourse Analysis.- Schools of Thought in Foreign Policy Discourse: the Potential for Convergence and Divergence Amongst IBSA States.- Official Framings of Foreign Policy: South-South Leadership as Starting Point of the IBSA Initiative.- Contested Roles: Investigating Societal Framings of Foreign Policy in India, Brazil and South Africa.- Conclusions: On the Like-Mindedness of the IBSA States.- Outlook: IBSA and the Shadow of BRICS.- Annex.