Rebels without a conscience: The evolution of the rogue states narrative in US security policy
Rebels without a conscience: The evolution of the rogue states narrative in US security policy
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没有良心的叛乱者：美国安全政策中流氓国家叙事的演变
DOI：
10.1177/1354066110383996
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Alexandra Homolar
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作者：
Alexandra Homolar
本文考察了在乔治W.布什总统发表《华盛顿宣言》之前，美国“流氓国家”安全叙事的基础是如何发展的。布什政府的“全球反恐战争”和布什总统将伊拉克、伊朗和朝鲜描绘成“邪恶轴心”。文章认为，美国后冷战时期的外交和国防政策如何集中在“非理性”的困惑-但军事劣势-对手可以通过分析美国国防界的行为者如何话语构建离散的国际危机作为美国威胁情景重大转变的触发器来理解。这是通过对冷战后美国国家安全利益构建中的两个关键事件的考察而发展起来的：1990- 1991年的波斯湾危机和1993- 1994年的朝鲜核危机。本文提出了对国际危机的解释进行历史化争论的重要性，以便更好地理解一个国家的国家安全利益的定义过程，并对系统性变革过程中如何重建安全叙事进行更深入的分析。
This article examines how the foundations of the ‘rogue states’ security narrative in the United States developed prior to the declaration of the George W. Bush administration’s ‘Global War on Terror’ and President Bush’s representation of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an ‘axis of evil’. The article argues that the puzzle of how US post-Cold War foreign and defence policy came to be focused on ‘irrational’ — but militarily inferior — adversaries can be understood through analysing how actors within the US defence community discursively constructed discrete international crises as the trigger for a major shift in US threat scenarios. This is developed through an examination of two crucial episodes in the construction of post-Cold War US national security interests: the crisis in the Persian Gulf in 1990–1 and the North Korean nuclear crisis in 1993–4. The article suggests the importance of historicizing contests over the interpretation of international crises in order to both better understand the process through which a country’s national security interests are defined and to gain greater analytical purchase on how security narratives are reconstructed during processes of systemic change.