• DOI:10.1177/1354066109350055
Corpus ID: 145468837

Who speaks? Discourse, the subject and the study of identity in international politics

@article{Epstein2011WhoSD,
  title={Who speaks? Discourse, the subject and the study of identity in international politics},
  author={C. Epstein},
  journal={European Journal of International Relations},
  year={2011},
  volume={17},
  pages={327 - 350}
}

C. Epstein

Published 2011

Sociology

European Journal of International Relations

This article aims to show the theoretical added value of focussing on discourse to study identity in international relations (IR). I argue that the discourse approach offers a more theoretically parsimonious and empirically grounded way of studying identity than approaches developed in the wake of both constructivism and the broader ‘psychological turn’. My starting point is a critique of the discipline’s understanding of the ‘self’ uncritically borrowed from psychology. Jacques Lacan’s… CONTINUE READING

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