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Framing the Threat:How Politicians justify their Policies
by Imke Köhler
Framing the Threat
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
With Thankfulness
Contents
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Part I Research Design
1 Introduction
1.1 The Research Question
1.2 The Theory and Method of Analysis
1.3 The Contribution to the Social Sciences
1.4 The Structure of the Book
Part II Theoretical Framework and Methodology
2 Constructivism
2.1 The Constructivist Turn
2.2 Structure and Agent
2.3 Materialism versus Idealism
2.4 Causality in Moderate Constructivism
2.5 The Role of Language in Constructivism
2.6 Constituting Meaning in Radical Constructivism
2.7 Austin’s Speech Act Theory
2.8 Summary
3 Discourse Theory
3.1 What is Discourse?
3.2 CDA: Reality is More than Discourse
3.3 Intertextuality, Context, and Change
3.4 The Power of Discourse
3.5 Summary
4 Security Discourse
4.1 What is Security?
4.2 The Concept of Securitization
4.3 The Copenhagen School and its Critics
4.4 Constructing Self and Other in Security Discourse
4.5 Summary
5 Mode of Conduct
5.1 The Method
5.2 Who Acts?
5.3 What is Said and Done?
5.4 In Which Context Does it Take Place?
5.5 Data Selection
5.6 Limits of Study
Part III Empiricism
6 Bush’s Security Discourse and Policies
6.1 Constructing the Self
6.1.1 America, the Innocent
6.1.2 America, the Great Nation
6.1.3 America, the United and Resolved
6.1.4 America, Freedom’s Defender
6.1.5 America, the Called and the Victorious
6.1.6 America’s Cause is Just
6.2 Constructing the Other
6.2.1 The Evil Other
6.2.2 The Barbaric Other
6.2.3 The Fanatic Other
6.2.4 The Outcast Other
6.2.5 The Bestial Other
6.3 Constructing the Threat and Proper Threat Defense
6.3.1 The (Un-)Certainty About Future Attacks
6.3.2 The Imperative to Gather Information
6.4 Summary of Identity and Threat Formation
6.5 Bush’s Detention and Interrogation Policy
6.5.1 Redefining the Rules
6.5.2 Pre-emptive Interrogation
6.6 Audience
6.6.1 The Public and the Media
6.6.2 Congress
6.6.3 The Apparatus: Government, Military, Secret Services
6.6.4 The Supreme Court
6.7 Summary of Policies and the Audiences’ Positions
7 Obama’s Security Discourse and Policies
7.1 Constructing the Self
7.1.1 America, the Innocent?
7.1.2 America: Greatness Must be Earned
7.1.3 America, Determined but Disunited
7.1.4 America: We Went off Course
7.1.5 America: That is Who We Are!
7.2 Constructing the Other
7.2.1 The Terrorist Other
7.2.2 The Barbaric Other
7.2.3 The Fanatic Other
7.2.4 The Outcast Other
7.2.5 The Bestial (Cancerous) Other
7.3 Constructing the Threat and Proper Threat Defense
7.3.1 The Threatening Other
7.3.2 The Endangering Self
7.3.3 The Alienated Partners
7.4 Summary of Identity and Threat Formation
7.5 Obama’s Detention and Interrogation Policy
7.5.1 Reestablishing the Rule of Law
7.5.2 Challenges and Shortfalls
7.6 Audience
7.6.1 The Public and the Media
7.6.2 Congress
7.6.3 The Apparatus: Government, Military, Secret Services
7.7 Summary of Policies and the Audiences’ Positions
Part IV Conclusion
8 Findings and Implications
8.1 Summary of the Book
8.2 The Bottom Line
8.3 Topics of Further Research
References
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