Constructing civilisations: embedding and reproducing the 'Muslim world' in American foreign policy practices and institutions since 9/11/
Gregorio Bettiza
- 2015
Since 11 September 2001, the 'Muslim world' has become a civilisational social fact in international politics by being progressively embedded in and enacted onto the world by, American foreign policy discourses, institutions, practices and processes of self-other recognition. This article theoretically understands and explains the causes and consequences of these changes through an engagement with the emerging post-essentialist civilisational analysis turn in International Relations (IR).
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNITED STATES--FOREIGN POLICY SECURITY--INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM--RELIGIOUS ASPECTS--ISLAM