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Language, identity, and Syrian political activism on social media
\"Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media is an empirical contemporary Arabic sociolinguistic investigation informed by theories and notions developed in the fields of Arabic linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Building on the Bakhtinian concept of linguistic hybridity, this book conducts a longitudinal analysis of Syrian dissidents' social media practices between 2009 and 2017. It shows how dissidents have used social media to emerge in the discourse about the Syrian conflict and how language has been used symbolically as a tool of social and political engagement in an increasingly complex sociopolitical context. This monograph is ideal for students, sociolinguists and researchers interested in Arabic language and identity\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Core National Security Interest: Framing Atrocities Prevention
This essay analyzes President Barack Obama’s communication strategies in his speeches and presidential statements concerning threats of mass atrocities in Libya, Syria, and Iraq from 2011 through 2015. It examines how he has used three rhetorical “frames” to explain events in these countries and to advocate specific U.S. policy responses: the “legalistic” (or “liberal internationalist”), the “moralistic,” and the “security” frame. Obama utilized primarily the legalistic frame to justify U.S. military intervention in Libya in 2011, and he relied mainly on the security frame (focusing on terrorist threats against U.S. nationals) to justify the deployment of U.S. military forces against ISIL in Iraq and Syria in 2014−2015. Obama’s rhetorical framing of the violence perpetrated by the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad since 2011 has been less consistent. Hardly ever in these speeches did Obama suggest that mass atrocities per se constituted a threat to U.S. national security—despite the declaration in Obama’s 2011 Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities that “preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest” of the United States. Utilizing an approach to linguistic analysis developed by Roman Jakobson, the paper shows how Obama has employed rhetorical devices that emphasize the boundaries between the “in-group” of the American national community and the “out-groups” in other countries who are threatened by mass atrocities. Because members of an in-group are typically depicted as warranting greater concern than members of out-groups, Obama’s assignment of victimized communities to out-group status has effectively justified inaction by the U.S. government in the face of genocidal violence.
Journal Article
Die Legitimierung des deutschen Syrien-Einsatzes
Biographical note: In den Tagen nach den Anschlägen in Paris am 13. November 2015 beherrschte vor allem Angst die europäische Politik. Die Versammlungsrechte in Frankreich wurden kurzweilig ausgesetzt und auch im Rest Europas wurden die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen verschärft. Der Deutsche Bundestag entschied, Frankreich im Kampf gegen den selbsternannten „Islamischen Staat“ in Syrien zu unterstützen. Dieser dritte offensive Einsatz der Bundeswehr wurde innerhalb kürzester Zeit durchs Parlament gebracht. Mit Hilfe einer Argumentationsanalyse zeigt das Buch auf, mit welchen Begründungen der Einsatz in Politik und Massenmedien legitimiert wurde. Der zivilgesellschaftliche Protest blieb aus und lässt die Frage zurück, was aus pazifistischen Wertvorstellungen geworden ist. Gina Hoffmann wurde 1991 in Saalfeld/Saale geboren. Sie studierte Angewandte Medienwissenschaften an der Technischen Universität Ilmenau. Den Masterabschluss erlangte sie 2017 an der Universität Erfurt im Studiengang Kommunikationsforschung: Politik und Gesellschaft, mit dem Schwerpunkt Politik.
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Right-Wing Populist Discourse in the European Parliament on Turkish Foreign Policy
Right-wing populism is on the rise all over the world and has led to profound effects and changes in the international system. The European continent, which is identified with democracy and human rights, also sees its share of this trend. Today, right-wing populist parties and actors are gaining strength in many EU countries and come to the fore as a serious political focus. The European Parliament (EP), as an example of direct democracy, has become one of the most visible institutions facing this shift. In this article, the discourses of right-wing populist parliamentarians in the EP toward Türkiye are focused on through a social constructivist perspective. The 2009-2014 and 2014-2019 parliamentary periods are analyzed comparatively to present which discursive strategies MEPs used in their statements about Türkiye and what kind of Türkiye representation they constructed in the EP. The article benefits from critical discourse analysis studies and aims to contribute to the literature on the attitudes of rightwing populist groups on Türkiye.
Magazine Article
America's Default Foreign Policy
President Obama's June 13 decision to send light weapons and ammunition to Syrian rebels reflects a fundamental reality in the dialectic of American foreign policy. Within this administration and indeed throughout official Washington, humanitarian interventionism is the inevitable default position for policy makers and political insiders. There is no intellectual counterweight emanating from either party that poses a significant challenge to this powerful idea that America must act to salve the wounds of humanity wherever suffering is intense and prospects for a democratic emergence are even remotely promising. Adapted from the source document.
Magazine Article