englischWhat do we mean by the demos of democracy? How do understandings of the people and ‘we’ change in political discourse? And what does this imply for changes to democracy itself? These questions are addressed in this book from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Concrete analyses [...]

englischDemocratic war study – drawing upon the notion of a specific democratic inclination to the use of force – is the study of democracy without democracy. This is the conclusion drawn by Valerie Waldow in her conceptual analysis of current interpretations of the relationship between democracy, [...]

englischBased on a comparative study of Serbia and Croatia, this book investigates the role of narratives in the integration process of candidate countries into the European Union (EU). It develops an original model in order to analyse the structure and political use of narratives. Its novelty [...]

englischThe book offers a performative analysis of hegemony within the discourse on international terrorism after the death of Osama bin Laden. It takes up the poststructuralist perspective of the Essex School of discourse analysis, expanding it by pragmatic approaches to discourse. The leading [...]

englischWhile migrants categorised as illegal immigrants are generally voiceless, various representations of these migrants are disseminated into Irish society through the Parliament and newsprint media. This book examines how those two institutions discursively represented illegal immigration in [...]