ABSTRACT
Adopting the critical constructivist and postcolonial viewpoints, this chapter postulates foreign policy as a dynamic practice that enables a ‘state’ to reproduce itself. By focusing on narrative identity and action that perpetuates internal/external divide, it suggests identity comes into being only via difference. Also the narrative process is imbued with power as there is a constant struggle for establishing a particular form of ‘we-ness’ or state identity. In context of the case study, great power narratives and inequalities in ‘race’, ‘political economy’ and ‘gender’ through a conceptual spectrum of ‘degrees of difference’ are evaluated. Lastly, the chapter considers intertextuality as a methodology by which discursive processes can be comprehended.
