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

基本信息

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

项目摘要

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.

种族、国籍和身份等社会差异标记如何相互作用影响外交政策的方针？这是社会科学中一个长期存在的问题，其答案有助于我们理解在多个互动层面上什么促进或限制外交关系或敌对关系。该博士论文项目研究了对社会差异的看法如何交叉，从而为从事国际关系的个人之间的互动提供信息。除了培训一名美国研究生进行科学文化人类学之外，这项工作还促进了代表性不足的少数群体对科学的参与，并将其研究结果广泛传播给学术和非学术受众。该项目利用最近代表性不足的少数群体成员开展国际外交方式的变化来探讨种族、国籍和身份是否以及如何相互作用影响外交政策的方式。学生调查员对职业外交官、外交关系专家和其他利益相关者进行参与观察，以了解身份因素影响政策理解、制定和实施的日常方式。研究人员通过采访和媒体分析来补充这一活动，以将见解置于动态国际政治的更广泛背景下。该项目提供了关于身份的各个方面如何交叉影响个人之间的关系以及将这些关系扩展到国际外交的见解，为以更加划分的方式考虑身份的理论增添了细微差别。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来获得支持。