Author: Hansen, Lene
Title: Security as Practice : Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War
Description: London, Routledge, 2006. orig. wrappers. 23x15cm, xxiii,259 pp. PAPERBACK.. ISBN: 0415335752. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Contents: The theory and methodology of discourse analysis -- Discourse analysis, identity and foreign policy -- Beyond the other : analyzing the complexity of identity -- Intertextualizing foreign policy : genres, authority and knowledge -- Research designs: asking questions and choosing texts -- A discourse analysis of the western debate on the Bosnian War -- The basic discourses in the Western debate over Bosnia -- Humanitarian responsibility versus ’lift and strike’ : tracing trans-Atlantic policy discourses -- Writing the past, predicting the future: travelers, realism and the politics of civilization -- The failure of the West? The evolution of the genocide discourse and the ethnics of inaction.

Keywords: 0415335752 International Relations, Political History, Bosnia, 1995 Partition, Balkans Politics, Civil War, Language, ,