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US Policies on Violent Extremism (CVE) in The Era of George W.Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump
Abstract
This study compares the USA's Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) policies of the George W.Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump administrations by examining the US National Security Strategy Documents (SSDs) between 2001 and 2021. It seeks any evidence of whether meaningful changes have occurred or not. For this purpose, I initially discussed CVE policies, literature, and how terror threat assessments are made in the SSDs. After that, I tried to analyze the SSDs. The analysis of the SSDs was made with the content analysis method, which is one of the sub-branches of the qualitative research method. The study revealed that there was no interest in CVE policies in the first Bush Era because of his "war metaphor," but a few began in the second Bush Era. In the Obama Era, keeping in mind the negative and heavy consequences of George W.Bush’s approach, CVE policies were tried to implement but caused some Islamophobic consequences. In the Trump Era, the CVE policies underwent a major transformation; the discursive sensitivity toward Islam was totally lost, and the word "terror" dangerously started to be used with word of "Islam". The study is important to show the official views and practices of the USA between 2001 and 2021.
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References
- Kısacık, D. (2024). George W. Bush, Barack Obama ve Donald Trump Dönemlerinde ABD’nin Şiddete Varan Aşırıcılıkla Mücadele (CVE) Politikaları. Terörizm ve Radikalleşme Araştırmaları Dergisi, 3(1), ss.44-68, DOI: 10.61314/traddergi.1291659
Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Terrorism in International Relations
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Dergah Kısacık
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0000-0002-9684-9601
Türkiye
Early Pub Date
January 27, 2024
Publication Date
January 27, 2024
Submission Date
May 3, 2023
Acceptance Date
August 7, 2023
Published in Issue
Year 1970 Volume: 3 Number: 1