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Securitization and the Iraq War - The rules of engagement in world politics (Hardcover, New)
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Securitization and the Iraq War - The rules of engagement in world politics (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies
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This book critiques the conceptualization of security found in
mainstream and critical theoretical debates, and applies this to
the empirical case of the 2003 Iraq War. The Iraq War represents
one of the most puzzling, complex, and controversial events in the
post-Cold War era. The manner in which the Bush administration
finally decided to hold Saddam Hussein accountable through military
intervention provoked a worldwide outcry due to the narratives they
constructed to justify the "pre-emptive use of force" and "enhanced
interrogation techniques." Responding to constructivist and
post-structuralist scholars' calls for a turn to discourse, and
aligning its argument with critical security studies, particularly
the Copenhagen School (CS), this book conceptualizes language as a
pivotal mechanism of power. Adopting a Wittgensteinian approach, it
moves away from thinking about the nexus between security and
language from a single action, or speech act, to a series of
actions or interactions. To illustrate this new approach, the
author examines two cases in particular: the UN inspectors' finding
that there was no credible evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of
mass destruction (WMD) in early 2003 and the Abu Ghraib scandal in
2004. Both events show that the boundaries and relations between
securitized rules and environments are not pre-given but produced
in a particular language game. This book will be of much interest
to students of critical security studies, US foreign policy, and IR
in general.
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