The Alliance And The Discourse

Discourse is showing the power interests that created by discourse. People living in common environment, they need to communicate and exchange. In the human world, the words are very common and it is a common way of communication. So, where there need to exchange there is discourse, discourse also occurs by discourse power. Alliance is a group that several countries agreed to some interests and targets, at the beginning of establish the alliance, the countries need to communicate, and discourse appeared. The establishment of the alliance played an important role for the discourse power , and provides a platform for the development of the discourse power.The interaction between alliance and discourse power mainly came out from two respects. That is alliance treaty and the media. Alliance treaty is a discourse text, relatively concentrative expression of the internal power status. In fact, the alliance formation process is also the treaty discourse power gambling process within alliance and results. With the development of science and technology, media has become an important way of alliance's discourse.The role of discourse power to alliance comes out from two respects. The one is in the alliance. Internal power struggle between members is the interests of power and pursue the alliance management. If the members good at using words, it will increase their discourse power and improve their status; Instead of, they will lose discourse, lose alliance internal issue and get disadvantage of endangering their interests. If the game out of control, that will bring disastrous results for the alliance.There are two kinds of approaches for pursuing the discourse power in Alliance, one of them is modified the treaty; the other way is the members use their own media to debate on a problem, to express their own opinions and their self-interest.The other is alliance external. On alliance external, alliance need to communicate with other countries of international, this needs alliance good at control the discourse power itself. When the words of building alliance are same, the power of discourse will increase and increasing the advantages of discourse power of alliance; while not, the discourse power will weaken. That is to say, the parties agree that will enhance the alliance's discourse power, parties disagree will weaken it. On the external, the media war is the mainly way of getting discourse power. Alliance spread the attitudes and opinions through their own media for a problem constantly, and lead the world by understanding and decision by complete discourse on a problem for himself.American's northeast Asia alliance-Japan alliance and Korea alliance-provides case for analysis the relationship between discourse power and alliance. In the U.S.-Japan alliance and U.S.-Korea alliance, the members use different languages, cultures difference is very big. And because of the strength of a country's disparity, so at the establishment of alliance, the symmetry is an asymmetric alliance, that is not only lies on national strength, but also reflect on the using of words. At the beginning of establish the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-Korea alliance, Japan, South Korea and the United States have huge strength difference, resulting the United States is the master of words and guides alliance development direction in early alliance. Japanese, Korean and America backing different history and culture, different language characteristics, different countries strength, English websites', media's coverage is more breadth,depth and greater than Japanese's and Korean's. So at the using of language, America has far surpassed than Japan and Korea, their discourse tension will be reflected on the alliance of internal and external practice. U.S.-Japan alliance and U.S.-Korea alliance are symmetry, Japanese's and Korean's discourse power is smaller than America's. Along with Japan and Korea's strength enhancing and the changes of international environment, Japan and Korea begin to express their own interest to severe asymmetry, and modify the serious asymmetry treaty, they began to compete for discourse power. The United States must deal with the change of alliance, sustain alliance operation, and give some discourse power to the members, so they will modify the treaty constantly, discourse power of Japan and Korea increase and they become stronger at the same time.On alliance external, U.S.-Japan alliance and U.S.-Korea alliance living in the international society, the fit and conflicts of interest exists, Alliance external discourse power struggle will appear. In northeast Asia, alliance external discourse power struggle is relatively concentrated on the nuclear issue. The nuclear issue has become a deep-rooted problem, derivative the fierce discourse power game between U.S.-led alliance and North Korea. As the United States and North Korea's most prominent, both words debate around a certain question always are eyeball. At this time, if America's Allies Japan and Korea has consistent discourse with the American will greatly increase the discourse power and give North Korea oppressive feeling. For example, at the end of 2010 and 2011, America, Japan and South Korea held joint war games continuously, wantonly scattered "North Korea threat" in international organizations, conference and media, "the north Korean threat" words flooded north Korea's basic security and survival appeals and brings huge deterrent for surrounding powers. America, Japan and Korea coordinated the discourse power and the strength of discourse is very great, discourse power handed chiefly by alliance. But, if the members'words don't coordinate that will bad for overall discourse power of alliance. For example, Japan has different attitude on solving the hostage problem with America and Korea, Japan enlarge the discourse on the media and the six-party talks, it brings a downside to solve the nuclear issue and harmful for the alliance's discourse power.In short, at the beginning of establish the alliance, the discourse power came in. Inside, the alliance with hard power discourse power for backing, with soft power for forms, represent and pursues member's interests, created different discourse effects according to their respective benefits assumptions of their power and participants and alliance's actual status of the international environment. The discourse game of internal alliance is an important way and channel to maintain alliance, especially on dynamic balance of the symmetry alliance. On alliance external, the discourse power represents the important tool of pursuing the power, the alliance power lead the understanding of the international society on a problem good for itself,through enlarge the good words for itself and bad words for its opponents, thus created conditions for alliance effective strike and seek the incomes. No matter on alliance internal or external, there are members words game participants. Participants' discourse game as alliance as the platform, fight but cannot be broken, dynamic coordination, is the important principles of relatively balanced internal alliance, advancing the external rights of alliance.