When ends Trump means: continuity versus change in US counterterrorism policy
When ends Trump means: continuity versus change in US counterterrorism policy
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特朗普何时结束意味着：美国反恐政策的连续性与变化
DOI：
10.1080/23340460.2020.1734956
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发表时间：
2020
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Tom F. A. Watts
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R. Biegon;Tom F. A. Watts
摘要本文运用历史唯物主义的知情框架来分析美国反恐政策的变化和连续性。尽管唐纳德·特朗普的“美国优先”论调传达了一种“新”反恐方式，但在实践中，他的政府在很大程度上强化了先前存在的倾向，扩大了打击ISIS和基地组织的军事行动。根据美国在全球南部的长期目标--以稳定现有的资本主义政治经济关系模式为中心--美国继续“自下而上”监管跨国安全挑战。这篇文章呼吁提高对美国治国之道中的手段-目的计算的敏感度。它认为，政策层面的战术转变(手段)应该与历史考量以及影响美国总统任期内外交政策制定的结构性和实质性因素(目的)相关。
ABSTRACT This article utilizes a historical materialist informed framework to analyse change and continuity in US counterterrorism policy. Although Donald Trump’s “America First” discourse conveyed a “new” approach to counterterrorism, in practice his administration has largely reinforced pre-existing tendencies, expanding the military campaigns against ISIS and al-Qaeda. In accordance with America’s longstanding objectives in the global south, which centre on stabilizing existing patterns of capitalist political-economic relations, the US continues to police transnational security challenges “from below”. The article calls for increased sensitivity to the means-ends calculus in American statecraft. It argues that tactical shifts at the policy level (the means) should be situated in relation to historical considerations and the structural and material factors (the ends) that impact US foreign policymaking across presidential administrations.