| Autor: |
Breakfast, Ntsikelelo, Kwitshi, Aviwe |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Zdroj: |
Gender and Behaviour; Vol. 20 No. 1 (2022); 18786-18798 |
| ISSN: |
1596-9231 |
| Popis: |
The aim of this article is to deconstruct the United States of America’s (USA) narrative and conceptualisation of terrorism with regard to the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular. Among other things, the article examines the foreign policy of USA in relation to Iraq. This article uses a qualitative literature assessment; meaning that the analysis is both descriptive and explorative. The article adopts Gramsci’s notion of hegemony to grapple with the question: How was ‘terrorism’ ideologically conceptualised by the USA after the end of the Cold War in relation to events in the Middle East, and what was the material basis for this conceptualisation? There is a knowledge gap in the domain of social sciences regarding the conceptualisation and deconstruction of terrorism and the ‘war on terror’. In bridging this gap, our main line of argument is that terrorism is an ideological construct and an initiative of the US as part of its soft power in pursuit of its political objective of hegemony. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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