Decades in Deadlock: Analysis of the Intergovernmental Discourse among Middle Eastern States about a Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone in their Region
- Despite intense international efforts to make progress regarding the establishment of a Middle Eastern Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone (ME WMDFZ), governments have spent decades in deadlock on the issue. This thesis examined the intergovernmental discourse among Middle Eastern states about the proposed zone by analyzing the prevalent topics and sentiments of Middle Eastern governments in the discourse. The thesis applied a quantitative approach, in which documents from an international context about a ME WMDFZ were analyzed using computational text analysis and interpreted by drawing on models of political discourse analysis. The conducted analysis contributed to close a research gap related to the evolution of the discourse on a ME WMDFZ and explored the application of computational text analysis to political documents.
Author: | Ida Büsch |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-17465 |
Examiner: | Alexander Brand, Oliver Serfling |
Document Type: | Bachelor Thesis |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/05/25 |
Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Rhein-Waal |
Degree-granting institution: | Hochschule Rhein-Waal |
Date of final exam: | 2022/12/20 |
Release Date: | 2023/06/06 |
Tag: | Arms control; Disarmament; Middle East; Nuclear weapons; United Nations |
Number of Pages: | 80 |
Faculties and Institutes: | Fakultät Gesellschaft und Ökonomie |
Licence (German): | Bestimmungen des deutschen Urheberrechts |