FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTISE: THE RESEARCH POTENTIAL OF CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS
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https://doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2022-3-77-85Keywords:
foreign policy expertise; critical geopolitics; geopolitical discourse; expert geopolitical discourseAbstract
The author determines the possibilities of using the theoretical and methodological apparatus of critical geopolitics to study foreign policy expertise. Accordingly, the key views of scientists specializing in the field of critical geopolitics on the problems of foreign policy expertise were summarized and systematized; the concept of critical geopolitics by G. O'Tuathail was expanded and supplemented; the significance of foreign policy expertise at various levels of geopolitical discourse was analyzed; the author's definition was proposed and the features of expert geopolitical discourse were established, its types determined. Consequently, it was substantiated that foreign policy expertise may be a network-organized set of actors in geopolitical discourse. By virtue of their expert status, they have the ability to decisively influence the geopolitical ideas of the population and political actors, alongside the process of the political decision-making process in the field of foreign policy, defense and security. The study determined that the subjects of foreign policy expertise act at all major levels of geopolitical discourse, forming its separate direction – expert geopolitical discourse. Within its framework, they form both ideological and theoretical, conceptual, as well as applied and popular geopolitical ideas that make up the geopolitical pictures of the world of ordinary citizens and the political elite.References
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