The Islamic State lexical battleground: US foreign policy and the abstraction of threat
This article suggests that President Obama's consistent references to the extremist Sunni group as ‘ISIL' (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) is not a trivial matter of nomenclature. Instead, the Obama administration's deliberate usage of the ISIL acronym (as opposed to other commo...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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International affairs
Year: 2016, Volume: 92, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-79 |
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B Terrorism B Definition B Concept of B Conception B Security policy B Bedrohungsvorstellung B Foreign policy B Development B Strategy B Enemy image B Tendency B Struggle against |