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Liu Boyi. 2021. 拜登政府《临时国家安全战略指南》解读: 基于话语分析的视角. Journal of Intelligence 40 (9) : 12–18.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Chinese

Abstract

The interim guidance issued by the Biden administration ahead of schedule conveys President Biden’s vision for how America will engage with the world. An interpretation of this strategic document from the perspective of discourse analysis can help reveal the new features and novel tendencies of the US government on the current international security environment, which serves as a complement to existing studies.[Method /Process]Based on the corpus of Interim National Security Strategic Guidance and speeches by the members of the Biden administration, this study combines the discourse analysis methods of critical metaphor analysis, social actor network, and corpus-assisted discourse studies. [Result/Conclusion]Discourse analysis is an important tool of intelligence analysis. It is found that the Biden administration will vigorously strive for world leadership, actively renew its alliances, take all means to counter and reduce “China threats”, and effectively promote the solution of its domestic security problems.