The Language of Interstate Relations: In Search of by P. Twardzisz

By P. Twardzisz

In challenging the commonly held trust within the ubiquity of the personification of the political kingdom, this book strives to de-politicize examine and to de-mystify conceptual metaphor. against mainstream cognitive assumptions, it presents targeted data-driven examine and one sensible way to some of the dilemmas.

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More generally, as indicated in Peterson (1996: 271), the gender issue lies behind different types of conflicts, domestic or international, such as ‘nationalist struggles, critical social movements, religious fundamentalisms, democratic mobilizations, peace initiatives, human rights, ecological attitudes, welfare-state crises, development policies, and restructured labor forces’. Criticism is indispensable and unavoidable, since ‘there is no such thing as a “pure”, unbiased statement’, as bluntly put in Sorning (1989: 95).

The external and internal sovereignty of the state is an issue that combines two co-existing qualities of the state. The state’s internal sovereignty is about its supreme authority over all its domestic authorities and its population. Its external sovereignty means its independence from any outside authorities (Bull, 2002: 8). Still, claiming the right to sovereignty, but not being able to assert this right in practice, poses a grave difficulty for the statehood of a given political entity that purports to be recognized as a state.

Should actually be considered the norm in the current literature. In many statements such as the state is x, the accurate rendering should be the state is seen as . . Consider a few examples which report on how states ‘are seen’ in the press, with italics added: (4) (a) . . both British and German newspapers predominantly see Britain as a member state that makes slow progress (Musolff, 2004: 48). (b) . . British newspapers across the political divide see their own country almost always as the EU laggard (Musolff, 2004: 59).

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