Tim Aistrope

Conspiracy theory and American foreign policy

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international political controversy, where foreign policy orthodoxy comes up hard against alternative interpretations. It does so in the context of American foreign policy during the War on Terror, a conflict that was quintessentially covert and conspiratorial. -- .

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to Conflict Analysis
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781526139382
• ISBN-10: 1526139383
• Artikelnr.: 54017850

Autorenporträt

Tim Aistrope is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Conceptualising conspiracy theory 1 The paranoid style
in international politics 2 Conspiracy culture Part II: Conspiracy
discourse in the War on Terror 3 Strategies of deterrence and frames of
containment 4 The War of Ideas 5 Conspiracy, misinformation and public
diplomacy Conclusion Select bibliography Index