Conspiracy Theory and American Foreign Policy

Informationen zum Autor Tim Aistope is Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland Klappentext 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. 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: Conceptualising conspiracy theory1 The paranoid style in international politics 2 Conspiracy culture Part II: Conspiracy discourse in the War on Terror3 Strategies of deterrence and frames of containment 4 The War of Ideas 5 Conspiracy, misinformation and public diplomacy Conclusion Select bibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Tim Aistrope
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2016
• EAN: 9780719099199
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9919-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana; New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education