Diskurse als Nährboden demokratischer Außenpolitik?

Is foreign policy condemned to lack democratic legitimation? No. This book develops a post-structural perspective on the legitimation of foreign policy by concentrating on discourse as a source for political decision-making on war and peace. The book derives the ideal of a democratic discourse from Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic democracy and analyses the public discourses in the mass media about the military interventions in Iraq in 2003 and in Libya in 2011. It refines the frame-approach from communication studies and makes it viable for political science discourse analyses. Its methodological approach is characterised by transparency and reliability, and it can serve as a tool for further research which focuses on analytical discourse.