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Norway is peace nation: a discourse analytic reading of the Norwegian peace engagement / Skanland, Qystein Haga   Journal Article
Skanland, Qystein Haga Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract Since the early 1990s, Norway has been involved in peace promotion in conflicts all over the world. The article explores how this activist peace promotion came to pass, and how it has become naturalized as an integral part of Norway's foreign policy. It adopts a discourse analytic approach with the aim of uncovering the structure of meanings and understandings, the resulting realities and their influence on Norwegian policy. The main conclusion is that the discourse emerging in the wake of the Middle East peace process in 1993 has been dominated by one particular representation of the peace engagement. It inscribes Norway with considerable agency and ability to contribute to peace; it constructs the Norwegian approach as unique and efficient; it lays out a combination of self-interest and altruism as motivation; and it links the peace engagement to the very identity of the Norwegian nation. It thus legitimizes, naturalizes and defends the policy. As such, the dominant representation has been an important precondition for peace efforts. However, the analysis also indicates that the start of a denaturalization of the engagement has been witnessed in recent years.
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To Tell China’s Story Well: China’s International Messaging during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Jacob, Jabin T   Journal Article
Jacob, Jabin T Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has dented China’s image as an efficient party-state, given how an effort to cover up the outbreak and the resulting delays in reporting led to the virus spreading beyond its origins in Wuhan in Hubei province to the rest of the country as well as rapidly across the world. This article examines China’s massive external propaganda effort launched as part of the effort to repair the damage to its global image and interests. It notes how China has not let the situation stop it from pursuing its traditional foreign policy and security interests, including, of competition with the USA. The article also argues that it is the ruling Communist Party of China’s concerns about its legitimacy at home that have determined the nature and scale of Chinese responses to the pandemic outside its borders.
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