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Identity and world order in India's post-Cold War foreign policy discourse
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Abstract This article examines the dominant conception of world order in India's post-Cold War foreign policy discourse. Drawing on a poststructuralist, discourse-theoretical framework, I argue that the discourse uses foreign policy and world order as sites for the (re-)production of India's identity by plac... view more
This article examines the dominant conception of world order in India's post-Cold War foreign policy discourse. Drawing on a poststructuralist, discourse-theoretical framework, I argue that the discourse uses foreign policy and world order as sites for the (re-)production of India's identity by placing India into a system of differences that constitutes 'what India is'. The article shows that India's foreign policy discourse frames world order in accordance with India's own national experiences and thus seeks to upheave India's identity to a position from where it can represent the universal: a global political community. This notion of Indian Exceptionalism constitutes the affective dimension of the discourse that obscures the absence of an extra-discursive foundation on which national identities could be grounded by endowing the Self with an imaginary essence and seemingly unique qualities.... view less
Keywords
world order; India; foreign policy; identity; national identity; discourse theory
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
exceptionalism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 180-198
Journal
Third World Quarterly, 40 (2019) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2018.1552079
ISSN
1360-2241
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed