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Neo-conservatives, Iraq war and Islamophobia

2019
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Abstract (EN)

According to the New Conservatives in the United States, after the Cold War, the United States had to create a new enemy to maintain its power. The required enemy was filled with the perception of dictatorial regimes as a threat to security policy. While Francis Fukuyama's The End of History thesis in 1989 and 1992 points out that there is no longer an enemy in the first place, this emphasis on democracy has created a contrast between the states that have liberal democracy and others. This work produced by Fukuyama provided the basis for the hostility of authoritarian regimes by the New Conservatives. Published in 1993 and 1996, Samuel Huntington explored the world on the basis of seven different civilizations: West, Confucius, Japanese, Islam, Indian, Latin America and Africa. Huntington argued that wars would take place between cultures, and at the same time mentioned that the war between Christianity and Islam had already begun. In the following process, the New Conservatives called China and Islamic Geography the greatest danger that the West could face before September 11, and after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, they focused on the Muslim Middle East with an orientalist and security language. On this basis, the rise of the "Radical Islam" and "Islamic / Islamist" discourses had a fear effect on Western society. This work, focuses on the Neo-Conservatives, to understand the effects of "discourse", "binary opposition" and "orientalist" concepts on creating enemies as a power practice after ten years before and ten years after from September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the New Conservatives' approach to security in foreign policy.

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Dr. Muhammed Çağrı Güler

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Muhammed Çağrı Güler (Master Thesis). Neo-conservatives, Iraq war and Islamophobia, 2019, Baskent University.

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