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POLITICS OF FEAR AND TERRORISM: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGIES OF EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dujo Šušnjara
orcid.org/0000-0002-9802-8014
Sažetak
Terrorism has become a cultural symbol of fear in contemporary Western society and therefore a frame of reference for evaluation of any other type of threat to human security. Attempts to universally define terrorism have never been succesful because of its situational and pejorative nature and overlap with other forms of political violence (guerilla warfare, insurgency etc.). Consequently, representation of certain phenomena and events as terrorist can be a matter of subjective construction. Therefore, by applying method of critical discourse analysis to counterterrorism strategies of the European Union and the United States of America, it is shown how the fear of terrorism in collective consciousness of Western society is constructed. In addition, comparative analysis method shows similarities and differences in conduction of politics of fear by western political elites. Results of analysis indicate that the representation of terrorist threat to Western society is based not on facts but on imagining worst-case scenarios of terrorist attack.
Ključne riječi
collective consciousness; constructivism; counterterrorism strategy; critical discourse analysis; politics of fear; terrorism
Hrčak ID:
195414
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Datum izdavanja:
28.12.2017.
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