During the Republican Party's national convention in 1992, Pat Buchanan claimed that a “culture war” was raging in the United States. While Buchanan described this “war” as a “struggle for the soul of America,” we use the culture-war concept to refer to the efforts of various conservative political and social actors trying to protect US traditional values and to “exorcise” the liberal and secular “demons” of the United States. Accordingly, this paper focuses on one of these actors: the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank located in Washington, DC. Performing a postructuralist discursive analysis of various “texts” produced by three scholars from the Heritage about marriage, family values, and sexuality, the paper shows how these scholars strategically rely on certain words and expressions in their research in order to reach two political goals: (1) marginalize liberal views on the issues just mentioned; and (2) discipline Americans by leading them to embrace a traditional/conservative interpretation of US national identity.
This paper seeks to shed light on the evolution of the hegemonic paradigm in the subfield of International Security Studies (ISS) by looking at one highly influential journal, International Security. Questions we will be considering: What are the parameters of the hegemonic paradigm that characterize ISS? What are its main continuities and ruptures? More generally, how do academic journals contribute to building, maintaining or deconstructing the hegemonic paradigm? Using the method of longitudinal content analysis, this paper highlights the different continuities and ruptures in this so-called hegemonic paradigm. Our aim is to show how International Security has contributed to building and maintaining this paradigm and how it can transcend these limits.
During the Republican Party's national convention in 1992, Pat Buchanan claimed that a "culture war" was raging in the United States. While Buchanan described this "war" as a "struggle for the soul of America," we use the culture-war concept to refer to the efforts of various conservative political and social actors trying to protect US traditional values and to "exorcise" the liberal and secular "demons" of the United States. Accordingly, this paper focuses on one of these actors: the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank located in Washington, DC. Performing a postructuralist discursive analysis of various "texts" produced by three scholars from the Heritage about marriage, family values, and sexuality, the paper shows how these scholars strategically rely on certain words and expressions in their research in order to reach two political goals: (1) marginalize liberal views on the issues just mentioned; and (2) discipline Americans by leading them to embrace a traditional/conservative interpretation of US national identity. Lors de son discours à la convention nationale du parti républicain durant les présidentielles américaines de 1992, le conservateur Pat Buchanan affirmait qu'une « guerre culturelle » fait rage aux États-Unis. Décrit comme un combat pour définir l'identité nationale américaine, le concept de la guerre culturelle est utilisé ici pour désigner les efforts menés par divers acteurs conservateurs pour protéger les valeurs traditionnelles de la société américaine et « exorciser » celle-ci de ce qu'ils considèrent être des « démons » libéraux et séculiers. Le présent texte se penche sur l'un de ces acteurs : la Heritage Foundation , un centre de recherche privé ( think tank ) conservateur situé à Washington D.C. À l'aide d'une analyse de discours post-structuraliste des études produites par trois chercheurs de la Heritage à propos du mariage, des valeurs familiales et de la sexualité, ce texte vise à illustrer que ces mêmes chercheurs articulent leurs discours de manière à atteindre un but politique : (1) marginaliser les positions progressistes sur les enjeux susmentionnés ; et (2) discipliner les Américains en les incitant à embrasser une vision traditionnelle/conservatrice de l'identité américaine.
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