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Framing the Threat - How Politicians justify their Policies (Hardcover)
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Framing the Threat - How Politicians justify their Policies (Hardcover)
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There is great power in the use of words: words create most of what
we consider to be real and true. Framing our words and narratives
is thus a tool of power - but a power that also comes with
limitations. This intriguing issue is the topic of Framing the
Threat, an investigation of the relationship between language and
security and of how discourse creates the scope of possibility for
political action. In particular, the book scrutinizes and compares
the security narratives of the former US presidents George W. Bush
and Barack Obama. It shows how their framings of identity, i.e., of
the American 'self' and the enemy 'other' facilitated a certain
construction of threat that shaped the presidents' detention and
interrogation policies. By defining what was necessary in the name
of national security, Bush's narrative justified the operation of
the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and rendered the
mistreatment of detainees possible - a situation that would have
otherwise been illegal. Bush's framings therefore enabled legal
limits to be pushed and made the violation of rules appear
legitimate. Obama, in contrast, constructed a threat scenario that
required an end to rule violations, and the closure of Guantanamo
for security reasons. According to this narrative, a return to the
rule of law was imperative if the American people were to be kept
safe. However, Obama's framing was continually challenged, and it
was never able to dominate public discourse. Consequently, Framing
the Threat argues Obama was unable to implement the policy changes
he had announced.
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