Foreign Policy as Social Construction
A Post-Positivist Analysis of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy in the Philippines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7301997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roxanne Lynn Doty (Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 297-297 |
| Publication date | 1993-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2600810 |
| OpenAlex | W2328752295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 357 |
| References cited | 32 |
Much of the criticism directed at post-positivist international relations has called for more detailed exploration of its implications for specific areas of investigation. At the same time, the study of foreign policy has been largely unaffected by the critical insights offered by post-positivism. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by examining three approaches to foreign policy analysis and the metatheoretical issues underlying each of them. It is suggested that an approach informed by post-positivist insights can provide a useful alternative to traditional ways of studying foreign policy and can facilitate a more critical interpretation of foreign policy practices. The first two approaches, the Cognitive Decisionmaking Approach and the Social Performance Approach, were chosen as a way of differentiating and highlighting the ontological and theoretical issues that are relevant to understanding and situating the Discursive Practices Approach. After examining the three approaches, I use the Discursive Practices Approach to analyze United States' counterinsurgency policy in the Philippines circa 1950
Bridge (graph theory · Criticism · Economics · Epistemology · Foreign policy · Foreign policy analysis · Interpretation (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Positivism · Sociology · Computer Science · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Military History and Strategy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs comes of age
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From Domestic Contestation to Alpha Male Foreign Policy
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Foreign Policy and Identity
The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action
Data Governance
The Invisible Constitution of Politics
Imagining Afghanistan
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Constructivist Approaches to EU–Turkey Relations
China, India and the US Rebalance to the Asia Pacific
The Construction of Knowledge
Broadening the Agenda of Security Studies
Au service de l'unité
Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974
Ontological Security beyond Binaries
The Polysemy of Security Community-Building
Queering the Responsibility to Protect
A construção retórica de uma ameaça
Canadian Discourse and Emotions on Terrorism
Discursive construction of the farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria
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Children & Migration
Arctic governance through discourse
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Re-engaging the self/other problematic in post-positivist international relations
Saving the YPJ, saved by the YPJ
“Catnip for Cranks”
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Process Tracing
Good Victims
Selling War and Peace
Manufacturing a 'Muted Public Reaction
Narrating commitment, deferring compliance
From Reassurance to Assertion
A Tentativa De Reconciliação Pelo Pedido De Desculpa
The Windrush Scandal and the individualization of postcolonial immigration control in Britain
The identity/alterity nexus in international relations
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Norm Contestation and Pragmatic Ethics
Constructing India as a Similar Enough Other
Activating norm collisions
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Resistance Discourse in Iran’s Foreign Policy
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Discourses and Ethics
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Social being
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Foreign Relations of the United States
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy
Frameworks of Power
Michel Foucault
Global Inscription
Writing Sovereign Identities
Discourse and Power in Development
The Ecological Perspective on Human Affairs with Special Reference to International Politics
Foreign Policy Motivation
Changing the Subject
Achieving Cooperation under Anarchy
Literary Production as a Politicizing Practice
The Interface Between Beliefs and Behavior
The Empirical Challenge of the Cognitive Revolution
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Conclusion
A Discursive Practices Approach to Collective Decision-Making
Cognitive Process and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Anarchy, Authority, Rule
Quasi-states, dual regimes, and neoclassical theory
What's at stake in the agent-structure debate
International organization
The poverty of neorealism
The Ecological Perspective on Human Affairs
Counter-insurgency in the Philippines
The Huk Rebellion
| Unique citing works | 357 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,9 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 351 |