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Abstract

This study is about the topic of US interventions in the Middle East. While the US has been very visible in region in past years, not least because of vivid military operations in Afghanistan or Iraq, its current objectives are more obscure. To analyse whether the US achieving direct energy independence over the research period from 2001 to today has influenced the US’ foreign policy considerations in the Middle East, a critical discourse analysis of power constructing media and political discourses in the US is undertaken. The dominant themes of a constant threat construction in the form of terrorism as well as the exceptional US having a value-oriented national identity allow for military measures undertaken in the region irrespective of actual energy-related concerns.

Course: International Relations - MA - P2929FTD

Date Deposited: 2024-02-02

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