Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

<p>Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of the arguments or findings. Students and scholars in political studies know the importance of metaphors in electoral and policy-related politics, coming across metaphors that are, knowingly or unknowingly, influencing our perception of politics.</p><p>This book is the first to develop new methodological approaches to understand and analyse the use of metaphor in political science and international relations. It does this by:</p><ul> <li>Combining theory with case studies in order to advance substantive work in politics and international relations that focuses on metaphor</li> <li>Expands the range of empirical case studies that employ this category descriptively and also in explanatory logic</li> <li>Advances research that investigates the role of metaphor in empirical and discourse-based methodologies, thus building on results from other disciplines, notably linguistics and hermeneutic philosophy.</li> </ul><p>This innovative study will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, international relations and communication studies.</p>