F. Identity and foreign policy

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Themes & Theories in International Relations
7. Representation, resistance, biopower
A. Post-structuralism
F. Identity and foreign policy
Construction of self/other also operates internally
Critical of IR focus on states, state behaviour, anarchy, sovereignty
Focus on dichotomous identities that value on over the other
Foreign policies constitute the identity of the self
Foreign policy actions = in part about reproducing who we think we are
No 'fundamental essences' to actors, entities assumed as given
Understanding the world depends on exclusion of identities/histories
Violence: via material & Ideational construction of boundaries
A. Background
B. Knowledge and power
C. Language and discourse
D. Genealogy
E. 9/11
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