RT Journal Article
T1 The Syrian wars of words: international and local instrumentalisations of the war on terror
A1 Martini, Alice
AB This article presents a study of the ‘wars of words’ among selected parties involved in the Syrian conflict. Based on a combination of Content Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), it examines actors’ discourses within the UN Security Council (2011-2015), the global arena of confrontation and international legitimisation of armed actions. Here, it investigates their instrumentalisation of the word ‘terrorism’ and the war on terror narrative, and it explores the dynamics of discursive (de)legitimisation of the use of violence in Syria. The article shows how parties instrumentalised this narrative to criminalise their enemies while legitimising their own violent actions. By doing this, it also offers a broader reflection on the global narrative on terrorism, and its different reception and instrumentalisation by core and peripherical actors.
PB Taylor and Francis
SN 1360-2241
YR 2020
FD 2020-03-18
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114863
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114863
LA eng
NO Martini, Alice. «The Syrian Wars of Words: International and Local Instrumentalisations of the War on Terror». Third World Quarterly, vol. 41, n.o 4, abril de 2020, pp. 725-43. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1699784
DS Docta Complutense
RD 21 abr 2025