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      The 'greater middle east' as a 'modern' geopolitical imagination in American foreign policy

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      Güney, A.
      Gökcan, F.
      Date
      2010
      Source Title
      Geopolitics
      Print ISSN
      1465-0045
      Electronic ISSN
      1557-3028
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      15
      Issue
      1
      Pages
      22 - 38
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This article aims at analysing how the September 11 terrorist attacks have caused the formation of a new geopolitical vision of an area called the 'Greater Middle East' and how this formation has led to changes in US foreign policy towards this region. To do that, the article first presents a theoretical background against which the modern geopolitical imagination of the USA is formulated. It considers the links between national traumas/myths, geopolitical codes and visions, and foreign policy actions. The article then applies this analysis to the case of the Greater Middle East with respect to how this imagined geography shapes the foreign and security policy of the USA. It concludes that even though this imagined region has been presented in texts as justifying US-led policies with liberal underpinnings, it has in reality laid the ground for and been used for justifying US extra-territorial intervention in the region. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
      Keywords
      Foreign policy
      Geopolitics
      National security
      Regional security
      Terrorism
      Middle East
      United States
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/22476
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650040903420370
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