The art of constructing (in)security: probing rhetorical strategies of securitisation

Senn, Martin

doi:10.1057/jird.2016.7

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“…Similarly, who promulgates and who listens to specific articulations shapes the possibilities for successful legitimation, as some speakers might be especially authoritative (or weak) vis-à-vis particular audiences (Goddard and Krebs 2015 , pp. 27–28; Jackson 2006 , p. 28; Smith 2021 , p. 4; Senn 2017 , p. 610; Krebs and Jackson 2007 , p. 47; see also Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992 , pp. 118–119).…”

Section: Rhetoric and Public Legitimationmentioning

confidence: 99%

US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats

Winkler

Jerdén

2023

J Int Relat Dev

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Since 2018, US foreign policy elites have portrayed China as the gravest threat to their country. Why was China predominantly cast as an ideological threat, even though other discursive formulations, such as a geopolitical threat, were plausible and available? Existing major IR theories on threat perpcetions struggle to address these questions. In this article, we draw from rhetoric and public legitimation scholarship to argue that the mobilization of adjacent policy debates was key to mainstream the representation of China as an ideological threat. By mobilizing debates on Russia and the soft power and sharp power concepts, a minority view in US foreign policy with a longstanding ambition to get tough on China established a seemingly natural link between liberal internationalism and an ideologically threatening China. Liberal foreign policy elites who originally opposed a realpolitik view of China could now subsume a geopolitical threat into an ideological one reminiscent of US-Soviet Cold War rivalry. This constituted a necessary catalyst to align most foreign policy elites to understand China as the gravest threat to the United States, at a time when China’s capabilities and behaviour, coupled with a deep sense of insecurity regarding America’s place in the world, provided the necessary backdrop.

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Section: Rhetoric and Public Legitimationmentioning

confidence: 99%

US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats

Winkler

Jerdén

2023

J Int Relat Dev

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“…From this perspective, writers suggested various definitions for rhetoric, such as the art of persuasion, the affective and motivating aspects of speech intertwined with its logical and factual aspects (Martin, 2016), the ways of effectively using spoken or written language to inform and persuade others (Bizzell & Herzberg, 2001), and ways of intensely conveying narrators’ experiences (Skelton, 2006). Senn (2017) also suggested that people use rhetorical devices to persuade others of their natural authority and fidelity to historical facts or conventional beliefs and that the issues spoken about are profoundly meaningful for the listeners’ interests.…”

Section: Rhetorical Devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authentic Voices in Supervision

Yerushalmi¹

2020

Brit J Psychotherapy

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Analytic thinkers incorporated the significance of authenticity for human development and therapeutic processes into their theories. I suggest that, consequently, supervisors search for the supervisees' authentic voices, often masked by unconscious rhetorical devices, and for the patients' authentic voices hidden in the supervisees' voices. Assuming a poetic stance for listening, which highlights the speakers' unique use of language, beyond the lexical and the prosaic, enables supervisors to perceive and construct implicit musical patterns and symbols woven into the supervisees' communications. This stance allows the supervisors to perceive the supervisees' authentic voices, free from their distracting rhetoric, and to imagine the patients' voices in the supervisees' heads. When supervisors differentiate and integrate various perceiving and reflective modes that characterize the poetic stance, they function as identification models for the supervisees in their development as analytic therapists.

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“…In this variable we coded all references to feelings and categorised all units into unemotional, somewhat emotional and inflammatory. 11 Our starting point was that high emotionality in general facilitates securitisation process (Senn 2016). Consequently, we assumed that the level of emotionality in the media discourse about the Pride Parade corresponded positively with a persuasive force that securitising moves had on their target audiences.…”

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confidence: 99%