1st Edition

Clinton, New Terrorism and the Origins of the War on Terror

By Chin-Kuei Tsui Copyright 2017
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

A frequent assumption of the American-led ‘war on terror’ and its accompanying discourse originated largely with the George W. Bush Administration, and that there was a counterterrorism policy revolution in the U.S. political arena. Challenging these assumptions, through a genealogical analysis of U.S. terrorism and counterterrorism discourses, this book demonstrates a distinct continuity (and... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Origins of the War on Terror and the Myth of President George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy Revolution

Chapter 2 Framing the Threat of New Terrorism: The Invention of U.S. Terrorism Discourse, and President Clinton’s Counterterrorism Approach

Chapter 3 Conceptualisating Terrorist Attacks: Metaphors, Frames, and President Clinton’s Counterterrorism Initiatives

Chapter 4 Framing the Threat of Rogue States: Iraq, Iran, and Clinton’s Dual-Containment Approach to Middle East Peace

Chapter 5 Writing American National Identity: Narratives and the Social Construction of Terrorism as a Negative Ideograph

Chapter 6 Rethinking the Discursive Construction of Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Theoretical Reflections and Implications

Conclusion

Biography

Chin-Kuei Tsui is a postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Strategic and International Affairs, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. His research interests are U.S. foreign and security policies, the American-led war on terror, and critical terrorism studies. His post-doc research focuses on President Obama’s counter-extremism initiatives.