The Human Factor: Accounting for Texts and Contexts in the Analysis of Foreign Policy and International Relations
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Abstract
Abstract Acknowledging the role of discourses as the entry door to social reality, the article highlights the value that discourse analysis (DA) can add to the cognate fields of foreign policy analysis (FPA) and international relations (IR). It argues that DA offers researchers an analytical platform to focus in parallel on the interaction between levels of analysis traditionally considered as separate (domestic/international, agent/structure, text/context). The first section of the article discusses the framing, generative, performative, and coordinative functions of discourse and highlights how DA helps disciplinary cross-fertilization. The second section reviews the way in which various perspectives on DA have approached the cognate fields of FPA and IR and makes the case for moving across theoretical and disciplinary boundaries. The third section critically reviews the methods of analysis that allow scrutinizing the connections between texts and context and the performative power of a word. Resumen Este artículo señala que el análisis del discurso (AD) puede agregar mucho valor a los campos afines del análisis de la política exterior (APE) y las relaciones internacionales (RI). Al reconocer el papel de los discursos como puerta de entrada a la realidad social, el artículo sostiene que el AD ofrece a los investigadores una plataforma analítica para centrarse al mismo tiempo en la interacción entre los niveles de análisis tradicionalmente considerados por separado (nacional/internacional, agente/estructura, texto/contexto). El artículo continúa de la siguiente manera. En la primera sección se analiza las funciones de estructuración, generativas, performativas y de coordinación del discurso, y hace hincapié en cómo el análisis del discurso ayuda a la fertilización cruzada disciplinaria. En la segunda sección se examina cómo las diversas perspectivas sobre el DA se han enfocado en los campos afines del APE y las RI, y se demuestra la necesidad de traspasar los límites teóricos y disciplinarios. En la tercera sección se examina de manera crítica los métodos de análisis que permiten investigar las conexiones entre los textos y el contexto, y el poder performativo de la palabra. Extrait Cet article souligne le fait que l'Analyse des discours peut ajouter beaucoup de valeur aux domaines apparentés à l'Analyse des politiques étrangères et aux Relations internationales. Il admet le rôle des discours comme porte d'entrée vers la réalité sociale et soutient que l'Analyse des discours dote les chercheurs d'une plateforme analytique pour se concentrer en parallèle sur l'interaction entre les niveaux d'analyse traditionnellement considérés comme distincts (intérieur/international, agent/structure, texte/contexte). Cet article traite cette question de la manière suivante: La première section aborde les fonctions génératives, performatives, coordinatives et de cadrage du discours et souligne la manière dont l'Analyse des discours contribue à l'enrichissement croisé des disciplines. La deuxième section évalue la manière dont les diverses perspectives de l'Analyse des discours ont approché les domaines apparentés à l'Analyse de la politique étrangère et aux relations internationales et plaidé en faveur d'un dépassement des limites liées aux théories et disciplines. La troisième section évalue d'un œil critique les méthodes d'analyse qui permettent d'examiner minutieusement les liens entre textes et contexte et le pouvoir performatif des mots.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it