Politika straha i terorizam : komparativna analiza protuterorističkih strategija Europske unije i Sjedinjenih Američkih Država

Šušnjara, Dujo. (2017). Politika straha i terorizam : komparativna analiza protuterorističkih strategija Europske unije i Sjedinjenih Američkih Država. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Sociology. [mentor Bilandžić, Mirko and Rodik, Petra].

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Abstract

Terrorism has become a cultural symbol of fear in contemporary Western society and therefore a frame of reference for evalutation of any other type of threat to human security. Attempts to universaly define terrorism have never been succesful because of its situational and pejorative nature and overlap with other forms of political violence (guerilla warfare, insurgency etc.). Consequently, representation of certain phenomena and events as terrorist can be a matter of subjective construction. Therefore, by applying method of critical discoure analysis to counterterrorism strategies of the European Union and the United States of America, it is shown how the fear of terrorism in collective consciousness of Western society is constructed. In addition, comparative analysis method shows similarities and differences in conduction of politics of fear by western political elites. Results of analysis indicate that the construction of fear of terrorism has begun in the last decade of twentieth century and that the representation of terrorist threat to Western society is based not on facts but on imagining worst-case scenarios of terrorist attack.

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