المجلة الجزائرية للأبحاث والدراسات
Volume 6, Numéro 1, Pages 454-467
2023-01-25

The Securitization Of The Iraqi Regime In President Bush’s Discourse In West Point Speech (2002)



Authors : Benmerabet Naime . Zeghoudi Yahia .

Abstract

Abstract: The article seeks to examine the Bush administration’s discursive construction of its military build-up and war against Iraqi regime. Utilizing the securitization framework of the Copenhagen School, the study uncovers how President Bush, in his West Point speech, formulated his claims about Iraqi threat by appealing purely to idiosyncratic, contingent and politicized views and perceptions. To this end, the study scrutinizes samples of speech acts that President Bush mobilized to reveal how he securitized Iraqi regime by using speech acts which enabled him to persuade his audience that Iraqi regime effectively posed a lethal and existential threat to US national security and to international peace and security. Moreover, the study displays how the securitization of Iraqi regime emboldened the Bush administration to relinquish security doctrines and plans pertaining to normal politics and to operate radical shifts in the laws and rules governing international relations.

Keywords

: George W. Bush ; West Point speech ; securitization framework ; speech act theory ; Iraqi regime

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