The securitisation of military and political sectors has been underway for decades in the context of Qatari politics.Conceptualising the role of security in Qatar’s foreign policymaking is the primary purpose of this...The securitisation of military and political sectors has been underway for decades in the context of Qatari politics.Conceptualising the role of security in Qatar’s foreign policymaking is the primary purpose of this study.Qatar’s security tools and strategies in the initial era of the Gulf Crisis 2017 are central elements of this research using the Copenhagen school’s securitisation framework.The Gulf Crisis started in June 2017 and took more than 3 years for the parties to warm the relations again.This research depicts the early process of the Gulf Crisis 2017 through categorising threats and vulnerabilities posed to Qatar’s military and political security.展开更多
This paper examines the projection and reception of strategic narratives in the realm of Chinese nationalism and the impact of contemporary official nationalist discourse on Beijing＇s foreign policy making. Within th...This paper examines the projection and reception of strategic narratives in the realm of Chinese nationalism and the impact of contemporary official nationalist discourse on Beijing＇s foreign policy making. Within the analytic framework of political symbolism, the paper dissects the divergent national identities reflective in different semantic and syntactic relationships inherent in the state-crafted historical narratives in contemporary China. In the post-Tiananmen era, the signification of the traumatic symbol of national humiliation in modem Chinese history, projected in the form of strategic narratives by the Party-state in patriotic education, has given rise to a societal force that threatens to internalize the historical conflicts on the foreign relations fi：ont. The counter-effect of strategic narratives, which has constrained the rationality of the state＇s foreign policy making, implies that collective memory is not an on^ztemand resource for the authoritarian regime to exploit to enhance its legitimacy. The relationship between the Chinese state and society as the constructor and consumer of communicative nationalism cannot be simplistically dichotomized.展开更多
文摘The securitisation of military and political sectors has been underway for decades in the context of Qatari politics.Conceptualising the role of security in Qatar’s foreign policymaking is the primary purpose of this study.Qatar’s security tools and strategies in the initial era of the Gulf Crisis 2017 are central elements of this research using the Copenhagen school’s securitisation framework.The Gulf Crisis started in June 2017 and took more than 3 years for the parties to warm the relations again.This research depicts the early process of the Gulf Crisis 2017 through categorising threats and vulnerabilities posed to Qatar’s military and political security.
文摘This paper examines the projection and reception of strategic narratives in the realm of Chinese nationalism and the impact of contemporary official nationalist discourse on Beijing＇s foreign policy making. Within the analytic framework of political symbolism, the paper dissects the divergent national identities reflective in different semantic and syntactic relationships inherent in the state-crafted historical narratives in contemporary China. In the post-Tiananmen era, the signification of the traumatic symbol of national humiliation in modem Chinese history, projected in the form of strategic narratives by the Party-state in patriotic education, has given rise to a societal force that threatens to internalize the historical conflicts on the foreign relations fi：ont. The counter-effect of strategic narratives, which has constrained the rationality of the state＇s foreign policy making, implies that collective memory is not an on^ztemand resource for the authoritarian regime to exploit to enhance its legitimacy. The relationship between the Chinese state and society as the constructor and consumer of communicative nationalism cannot be simplistically dichotomized.
