Resilience Discourse in US National Security: A Third Explanation
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Resilience Discourse at the Water’s Edge: American Foreign Policy Traditions and National Security Discourses
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Political Science · National Security Discourse
Discovery of the day
This study proposes a novel explanation for the rise of “resilience” in US national security discourse: its conceptual ambiguity allows it to reconcile diverse political perspectives and achieve policy consensus. Researchers conducted a discourse analysis of US National Security Strategies from 2002 to 2022, finding that resilience rhetoric speaks simultaneously to hegemonic American values like liberty and self-reliance, as well as both sides of the idealism-realism divide and the Hamiltonian, Wilsonian, Jeffersonian, and Jacksonian foreign policy traditions. As a writer and philosopher interested in how societies frame existential challenges, you will find this analysis directly illuminates the rhetorical mechanics through which competing worldviews are woven into a coherent, domestically palatable security narrative.
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