The United Kingdom and Europe Foreign Policy Discourse Analysis (Laclau and Mouffe Model)
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Ahmad Naghibzadeh
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Fatemeh Hamoei
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Keywords: Identity, Foreign Policy, Discourse Analysis, Britain, the unity of Europe, signifier and signified, Highlighting, marginalizing,
Abstract :
Britain as a European power is always famous for her opposition to deepening integration in Europe and Europeanization. In fact this country is one of the staunchest opposition of converting the European Union into European federation. The observers are of the view that it is only the economic compulsion that has made Britain join the process of integration and this country is having a supra Atlantic outlook. The present paper by taking the help of discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe wants to identify and analyze the signs (signifier and signified) present in foreign policy discourse of European Union which is articulated by Britain as an important member of the union and also examine the formative discourse atmosphere in order to explain the process of making British and European identity and to make possible the tense approach of Britain foreign policy
