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War in Ukraine
No full textProfessor Alister Miskimmon, Head of the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's reflects on the current conflict in Ukrain
War in Ukraine
No full textProfessor Alister Miskimmon, Head of the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's reflects on the current conflict in Ukrain
The EU tells a good story about itself, but its Asian partners may not be hearing it
Get PDFHow do countries in Asia view the European Union? Drawing on a new study, Ben O'Loughlin, Natalia Chaban and Alister Miskimmon show that Asian elites see the EU as an important partner, but do not buy into the EU's own narrative that Europe is a peaceful continent whose ability to overcome war offers a model for others
Symposium on Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order
No full textThis symposium consists of a series of engagements with an exciting contribution to the study of narrative in security politics and practice: Alister Miskimmon, Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle’s Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order (London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2013). The collection presents eight essays by scholars working with the concept of narrative in various ways, including a response from the authors to the critical interventions offered here. All of the contributors, including the book’s authors, have taken seriously bell hooks’ inspiration to ‘challenge and change’ the way that we think about narrative and have used their readings of Strategic Narratives to open up a dialogue about how we study representational practice and, ultimately, how we understand the processes and practices of security. Contributors include, Laura J Shepherd, Lucian M. Ashworth, Jan Hanska, María Martín de Almagro Iniesta, Monika Barthwal-Datta, Rhys Crilley and Cai Wilkinson
Introduction
No full textThis chapter outlines the empirical and conceptual argument of the book. We outline the concept of strategic narrative which underpins the empirical analysis in each chapter. We define strategic narrative as, ‘a means by which political actors attempt to construct a shared meaning of the past, present, and future of international politics to shape the behaviour of domestic and international actors’ (Miskimmon et al. in Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, p. 6, 2017). We take a narrative approach to understanding the EU–China relationship as a means to highlight how scholars in the EU and China interpret the narrativization of EU–China bilateral relations and to how this bilateral relationship is refracted through relations with third parties, for instance countries in Africa and in central Asia.</p
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