The Role of Foreign Policy Power and Discourse in the Corona and Post-Corona Ages (Case Study: China)

Subject Areas : Political and International Researches Quarterly

khosero reza zade ¹ , Mohammad Reza Tajik ² , Ali ashraf Nazari ³

1 - PhD Student in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, corresponding Author:[e-mail]
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-01-16 Accepted : 2022-01-16 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: Discourse, Foreign policy, China, Power, Corona virus, Michel Foucault,

Abstract :

Given the recent phenomenon of the Corona virus pandemic in the world and its effects on the foreign policy of any political system, this article takes the idea from the main dissertation entitled "Foucault's productive power from the perspective of discourse and its role on the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran" in which it is a position to explore the two strategic concepts of "power and discourse" in the foreign policy of the Chinese political system. The Objective of this paper is to study the role of power and foreign policy discourse in the Corona and post-Corona eras (case study: China). The present study is descriptive-analytical and seeks to answer the question that how has foreign policy of China been able to use the two concepts of power and discourse optimally to achieve its maximum national interests in the process of the Corona virus pandemic? In this respect our hypothesis is that the power and knowledge and implementation of a hegemonic discourse is essential for the establishment of an independent truth regime in the international system.