DISCURSIVE CORRESPONDENCE OF HEGEMONIC IR AND US FOREIGN POLICY: GEORGE BUSH ERA

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor in IR faculty at the Ministry of foreign Affairs

2 PhD Candidate in IR at the University of Tehran

Abstract

Despite of extensive development of IR research in Iran, there is a lack of
burgeoning literature focusing on International Relations per se. It is common to see
IR as the timeless scientific schools and theories rather than scientific discourses
which are constructed in the peculiar contexts. The article is aimed to examine
contextuality of hegemonic IR knowledge in relation to the United States’ foreign
policy in G. Bush era. The article seeks to ask how IR discursive developments are
affected by US foreign policy. In other words, relationship between US foreign
policy and IR knowledge in post-cold war era is under scrutiny. Using Discourse
Analysis as its method, and analyzing selective texts, article shows that there is a
meaningful discursive correspondence between IR dominated knowledge and US
foreign policy in G. Bush era. Corresponding contextualities, dichotomies and core
propositions demonstrate how these texts are mutually constituted.

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