{"product_id":"hegemony-and-discourse-theory-democracy-as-empty-signifier-in-international-relations-9783640595822","title":"Hegemony and Discourse Theory: Democracy as Empty Signifier in International Relations","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Christoph Kircher\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grin Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International Relations - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResearch Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 20\/20, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, language: English, abstract: The objective of this research paper was to apply Ernesto Laclau's and Chantal Mouffe's discursive theory of hegemony to the study of IR. I first compared Alexander Wendt's Constructivism with Althusser theory of ideology and claimed that what Wendt calls \"collective meaning\" does not evolve process-like, but is the result of a hegemonic struggle. In avoidance of an autonomous and self-transparent notion of the state in IR, I claimed that a state is an overdetermined instance; i.e. a hub of different overlapping discourses which is thought of as a person in order to facilitate an understanding of it. A discursive hegemony goes beyond Neo-Gramscianism by giving a new model of cultural articulation and by rejecting essentialist concepts of actors (as state as such or global class), in order to provide a discursive understanding of world politics. I c concretize my analyses at times with references to democracy, which, as it was shown, functions as empty signifier within a global hegemonic formation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grin Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45568251625623,"sku":"9783640595822","price":2143.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783640595822.webp?v=1767465430","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hegemony-and-discourse-theory-democracy-as-empty-signifier-in-international-relations-9783640595822","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}