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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Tim Aistrope, Aistrope Tim Tim
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781526139382
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3938-2
• 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
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Diplomatie, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, Politics / Current Events, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Conspiracy Theories