Conspiracy Theory and American Foreign Policy

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tim Aistope is Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland

Zusammenfassung

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

• Autoren: Tim Aistrope, Aistrope Tim, Aistrope Tim Tim
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781526139382
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3938-2
• Seiten: 184
• Serien: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana; New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Diplomatie, USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics / Current Events, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Conspiracy Theories, International Relations, Conspiracy Theories