Foreign policy identity of Lithuania constructed in the Lithuanian mass media after 2009Gerda Jakštaitė

ENThe purpose of this article is to analyse what kind of identity of the Lithuanian foreign policy is constructed in the Lithuanian mass media after 2009. The research object (Lithuanian foreign policy identity constructed by the Lithuanian mass media) determines the choice of constructivism as a principal theory to analyse the Lithuanian foreign policy identity, since the identity is one of the most important notions in this theory. Constructivists claim that patterns of foreign policy and international relations can be best explained through the analysis of ideas about and perceptions of international relations, paying particular attention to the analysis of identities of different actors in international relations. Based on constructivist notion that international actors’ identity is defined by describing self and its relations with others, several research tasks were set: To analyse self in the Lithuanian foreign policy identity constructed by the Lithuanian mass media. To analyse Other in the Lithuanian foreign policy identity constructed by the Lithuanian mass media. [Extract, p. 68]