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Constructing America's freedom agenda for the Middle East : democracy and domination
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This book explores how George W. Bush's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa was conceived and implemented as an American national interest, from the Bush era right through to the in...
This book explores how George W. Bush's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa was conceived and implemented as an American national interest, from the Bush era right through to the initial stages of the Obama administration. It highlights how the crisis presented by September 11 2001 led to regime change in Afghanistan and Iraq, but more broadly how American policy towards the region had a softer imperial side, which drew on broader economic theories of democratisation and modernisation. The Freedom Agenda contained within it a prescribed method of combating terrorism, but als
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- Creator
- Oz Hassan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780203102541, 0203102541, 9781283846226, 1283846225, 9781136240454, 1136240454, 1138811289, 0415603102
- OCLC
- ocn821175323, ocn819136881, on1193336164
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-223) and index.
- English
- Cover; Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: American interests and a history of promoting the status quo; The Freedom Agenda's critics: Islamists, instability, terrorists and credibility; The Freedom Agenda consensus and necessity; Going beyond the debate; 2: A constructivist institutionalist methodology; Structure and agency: the strategic-relational approach; Ideas and the construction of interests
- Ideas: towards a conception of continuity and changeCrisis: a constructivist institutionalist approach; Crisis narration: the content of political change; Discourse and ideological effects; Articulation; Interpellation and Identity; Methods: computer-assisted narrative discourse analysis and ethnography; 3: From candidate to crisis: Laying the discursive tracks of the Freedom Agenda; Candidate G. W. Bush and the post-Cold War era; President Bush in the post-Cold War era; The moment of punctuation: stabilising uncertainty and securing authority
- From tragedy to morality play: articulating God, freedom and an exceptional nation4: September to December 2001: The decisive intervention; Justice and the moralistic crusade in Afghanistan; Tensions in the moralistic crusade: freedom versus justice; Laying discursive tracks for the Freedom Agenda to evolve; 5: Constructing the Freedom Agenda for the Middle East; Diagnose, proselytise and impose: Iraq and the Freedom Agenda; The incremental evolution of a new policy paradigm for the Middle East; The rise of the Freedom Agenda: consolidating the paradigm
- The shape and content of post-crisis continuity and change6: Institutionalising the Freedom Agenda: A policy of conservative radicalism; Challenging MEPI from within: the bureaucratic resistance to the Freedom Agenda; Reinforcing MEPI: US-Middle East Free Trade Area; Reinforcing MEPI: the BMENA initiative's multilateral dimension; Strategic actors in the strategically selective context: push for elections and retreat; The Freedom Agenda: a policy of conservative radicalism; The 'neoliberal' Freedom Agenda: freedom as markets and modernisation
- 7: Obama's Freedom Agenda: Conservative pragmatism and the 2011 revolutionsObama's Freedom Agenda: a conservative pragmatist approach; Engaging beyond the state: civil society partnerships and the digitisation of the Freedom Agenda; The 2011 revolutions: a pragmatic approach to regional instability; Conclusion; Notes; 1: American interests and a history of promoting the status quo; 2: A constructivist institutionalist methodology; 3: From candidate to crisis; 4: September to December 2001; 5: Constructing the Freedom Agenda for the Middle East; 6: Institutionalising the Freedom Agenda
- 7: Obama's Freedom Agenda