Constructing peace in European media 1710-1721

该研究项目旨在通过分析1710年至1721年和平谈判期间的欧洲媒体，来仔细研究和平的话语和语义结构。从乌得勒支到奈斯塔德的条约中出现的欧洲和平秩序不仅以外交和权力政治变化(“力量平衡”)为特征，而且还以新的和平语义和叙述为特征。它们是在外交和新闻的紧密交织中发展起来的，从1700年开始成为和平谈判的核心媒体。本文分析的基础是西班牙王位继承战争和北方大战争的冲突，这两场冲突通常在国际法上被分开对待。因此，政治动因、公众选择和解决冲突的外交尝试的紧密交织体现在它的相互作用中。正是这种视角允许理解一种强大的、跨欧洲的和平政治语言在其社会、动因相关的条件性和交际纠葛中的构建和认知。由于这两个冲突是在荷兰同时谈判的，它们关于和平的具体语义可以在极具影响力的讲法语的荷兰媒体以及法国、德国和瑞典媒体的接待中得到检验。通过选择这些媒体环境，就有可能将和平“新语言”的实施、转化和翻译变成不同的“国家”政治文化--超越外交行为者的狭隘范围。只有全面成功的和平叙事才能在政治上充分发挥稳定社会政治秩序和产生意义的作用。特别关注谈判城市外交官和新闻记者之间的互动中出现的特定语义结构。

The research project aims to scrutinize discoursive and semantic constructions of peace by analyzing theeuropean press during the peace negotiations between 1710 and 1721. The european orders of peaceemerging in the Treaties from Utrecht to Nystad are not only characterized by diplomatic and power politicalalterations ("balance of power") but also by new semantics and narratives of peace. They have developed inthe close intertwining of diplomacy and press which became from 1700 on a core media of peace negotiations.The analysis is based on a synopsis of the conflicts of the War of Spanish succession and the Great Northern War which are usually treated separately in terms of international law. Thus, the close intertwining of political agents, public perseption and diplomatic attemps of conflict solution can be shown in its mutuality.It is this perspective that allows to comprehend construction and perception of a powerful, transeurope political language of peace in its social, agent-related conditionality and communicative entanglement.Since both conflicts were negotiated in the Netherlands simultaneously, their specific semantics of peace canbe examined in the highly influential frenchspeaking Dutch press on the one hand as well as in the reception inthe french, german and swedish press. By choosing these media landscapes it is possible to srutinize theimplementation, transformation and translation of a "new language" of peace into different "national" politicalcultures - beyond the narrow scope of diplomatic actors. Only comprehensively successful narratives of peacecould take politically full effect in stabilizing social and political orders and generating meaning.A special focus will be put on the emergence of specific semantic formations in the interactions between diplomats and press correspondents in the negotiation cities.