George W. Bush, September 11th and the rise of the Freedom Agenda in US-Middle East relations: a Constructivist Institutionalist approach

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/960 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/960 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/960 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/03/99 2009-12-01 12:10:56 2019-01-23 09:52:05 2011-07-19 16:16:52 thesis show 0 Hassan Osman Ali Dunn David H Pace Michelle University of Birmingham George W. Bush, September 11th and the rise of the Freedom Agenda in US-Middle East relations: a Constructivist Institutionalist approach unpub JK JZ JQ 10col_socs see also http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415603102/ This thesis generates a greater understanding of the George W. Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa. It is motivated by two central research questions: How and why was the Freedom Agenda developed? And, how was the Freedom Agenda constituted? To address these questions, a constructivist institutionalist methodology is developed. The value of this undertaking, is that it theorises the relationship between the events of September 11, 2001, and the rise of the Freedom Agenda. Consequently, this research focuses on the narrative constructed in the aftermath of the “crisis”, and how this laid discursive tracks for the evolution of the Freedom Agenda. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the Bush administration appropriated and articulated multiple discourses into a distinctive ideological-discursive formation, which in turn, sedimented particular definitions of concepts such as ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’. This created a new policy paradigm, which failed to address the ‘conflict of interests’ problem central to US-Middle East relations. As a result, the Freedom Agenda demonstrated a commitment to regional stability and the gradual reform of ally regimes, whilst seeking to challenge regimes hostile to the US. It was a policy caught between promoting democracy and domination. 2009-12-10 2009-08 graduation eng uobscanned This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. public 303 University of Birmingham Department of Political Science and International Studies d_ph na 2009-12-10 graduation