Barack Obama'nın ulusal güvenlik ve terörle mücadele söyleminin Foucaultçu bir analizi

This study is on a qualitative analysis of Barack Obama's discourse of counterterrorism strategy. With a theoretical subscription to Michel Foucault's approach to discourse it tries to make an understanding of how Barack Obama reorganized the American counter-terrorism discourse as well as norms of security within American society. By taking key speeches by Obama on national security throughout his presidency (2009-2017) and executive orders as well as memoranda produced under his administration, this study tries to answer questions such as what sources of information did he use in reshaping his national security policy? How did he construct the problematic in American national security? What did he include or exclude in the US counter terrorism terminology? Which identities did he try to make desirable and which he did not? What is normalized and what it pathologized? This thesis hypothetically claims that the only consistent part of Obama's counter terrorism discourse was his distinguishing Muslim from terrorist and Islam from terrorism. By rhetorically destroying the image of US as an invasive power Obama tried to reinstate the US hegemony through more prudent mechanisms