The threat of security. (c2014)
This thesis employs Securitization Theory to examine the origins of current US foreign policy towards Iran. It shows how the rational actor model in international relations theory fails to explain the foreign policy behavior of the US towards Iran because of the history of US Orientalist discourse v...
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| التنسيق: | masterThesis |
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3250 https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2014.54 |
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| author | Murray, Marie |
| author_facet | Murray, Marie |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Murray, Marie |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2014-06-20 2016-03-03T08:30:53Z 2016-03-03T08:30:53Z 2016-03-03 |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3250 https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2014.54 |
| dc.language.none.fl_str_mv | en |
| dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv | Lebanese American University |
| dc.rights.*.fl_str_mv | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | Economic sanctions, American -- Iran United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations Nuclear weapons -- Iran Lebanese American University -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic |
| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | The threat of security. (c2014) securitization and orientalist discourse in United States and foreign policy towards Iran |
| dc.type.none.fl_str_mv | Thesis info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| description | This thesis employs Securitization Theory to examine the origins of current US foreign policy towards Iran. It shows how the rational actor model in international relations theory fails to explain the foreign policy behavior of the US towards Iran because of the history of US Orientalist discourse vis-à-vis Iran and the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington. It argues that Orientalist trends found in US political and international relations discourse towards Iran provide the rationale for the securitizing actions of the US government in dealing with Iranian nuclear weapons. The thesis examines the contents of US presidential addresses, Congressional hearings, the stipulations contained within the most recent sanctions on Iran, transcripts of US Central Intelligence Agency reports and advisory speeches, interactions between Israel and AIPAC and the US administration and the use of loaded Orientalist and securitizing terms – such as “threat,” “evil,” “containment,” and “existential threat to Israel,” to test the hypothesis that US foreign policy discourse creates and responds to false threats in the Middle East due to Israeli influence and the perpetuation of neo-Orientalist views of the Middle East. Finally, it examines how partisanship and presidential administrations influence US foreign policy by parsing out the major changes in discourse from the Bush to the Obama terms. |
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| spelling | The threat of security. (c2014)securitization and orientalist discourse in United States and foreign policy towards IranMurray, MarieEconomic sanctions, American -- IranUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Middle EastMiddle East -- Foreign relations -- United StatesUnited States -- Foreign relationsNuclear weapons -- IranLebanese American University -- DissertationsDissertations, AcademicThis thesis employs Securitization Theory to examine the origins of current US foreign policy towards Iran. It shows how the rational actor model in international relations theory fails to explain the foreign policy behavior of the US towards Iran because of the history of US Orientalist discourse vis-à-vis Iran and the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington. It argues that Orientalist trends found in US political and international relations discourse towards Iran provide the rationale for the securitizing actions of the US government in dealing with Iranian nuclear weapons. The thesis examines the contents of US presidential addresses, Congressional hearings, the stipulations contained within the most recent sanctions on Iran, transcripts of US Central Intelligence Agency reports and advisory speeches, interactions between Israel and AIPAC and the US administration and the use of loaded Orientalist and securitizing terms – such as “threat,” “evil,” “containment,” and “existential threat to Israel,” to test the hypothesis that US foreign policy discourse creates and responds to false threats in the Middle East due to Israeli influence and the perpetuation of neo-Orientalist views of the Middle East. Finally, it examines how partisanship and presidential administrations influence US foreign policy by parsing out the major changes in discourse from the Bush to the Obama terms.N/A1 hard copy: ix, 90 leaves; 30cm. available at RNL.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-90).Lebanese American University2016-03-03T08:30:53Z2016-03-03T08:30:53Z2016-03-032014-06-20Thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesishttp://hdl.handle.net/10725/3250https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2014.54eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/32502020-05-18T14:53:57Z |
| spellingShingle | The threat of security. (c2014) Murray, Marie Economic sanctions, American -- Iran United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations Nuclear weapons -- Iran Lebanese American University -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic |
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| title | The threat of security. (c2014) |
| title_full | The threat of security. (c2014) |
| title_fullStr | The threat of security. (c2014) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The threat of security. (c2014) |
| title_short | The threat of security. (c2014) |
| title_sort | The threat of security. (c2014) |
| topic | Economic sanctions, American -- Iran United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations Nuclear weapons -- Iran Lebanese American University -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3250 https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2014.54 |