Doctoral Dissertation Research: How Perceptions of Social Difference Influence International Engagements

博士论文研究：对社会差异的看法如何影响国际交往

• 批准号: 2242064
• 负责人: Laurie Hart
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242064&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; How; Perceptions

How do markers of social difference such as race, nationality, and identity interact to affect approaches to foreign policy? This is a longstanding question in the social sciences whose answers inform our understanding of what promotes versus constrains diplomatic versus hostile relationships at multiple levels of interaction. This doctoral dissertation project investigates the ways that perceptions of social difference intersect to inform interactions among individuals working in international relations. In addition to training a U.S.-based graduate student in scientific cultural anthropology, the work promotes participation of under-represented minorities in science and distributes its findings broadly to academic and non-academic audiences. The project leverages recent changes in how international diplomacy is conducted by members of under-represented minorities to ask whether and how race, nationality, and identity interact to affect approaches to foreign policy. The student investigator conducts participant observation among career diplomats, foreign relations experts, and other stakeholders to understand the day-to-day means by which identity factors inform policy understandings, development, and implementation. The researcher complements this activity with interviews and media analysis to place insights within broader contexts of dynamic international politics. The project provides insights regarding how various aspects of identity intersect to affect relationships among individuals and the extension of these to international diplomacy, adding nuance to theories that have considered identity in a more compartmentalized fashion.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

社会差异的标志（例如种族，国籍和身份）如何相互作用以影响外交政策的方法？这是社会科学中的一个长期问题，它的答案能够理解我们对促进的促进与外交与敌对关系的理解。该博士学位论文项目调查了对社会差异的看法相交的方式，以告知在国际关系中工作的个人之间的互动。除了培训美国科学文化人类学研究生的研究生外，这项工作还促进了代表性不足的少数群体参与科学的参与，并将其发现广泛分发给了学术和非学术受众。该项目利用了代表性不足的少数群体成员的国际外交方式的最新变化来询问种族，国籍和身份是否相互作用以影响外交政策的方法。学生调查员在职业外交官，外交关系专家和其他利益相关者之间进行参与者的观察，以了解身份因素为政策理解，发展和实施的日常方式。研究人员通过访谈和媒体分析对这项活动进行了补充，以在动态国际政治的更广泛背景下进行洞察力。该项目提供了有关身份的各个方面如何相互影响以影响个人之间关系以及将这些方面扩展到国际外交的见解，这增加了以更加划分的方式考虑身份的理论的细微差别。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得的。