TY  - GEN
TI  - Cherry-Picked Intelligence: The Weapons of Mass Destruction Dispositive as a Legitimation for National Security in the Post 9/11 Age ; Geheimdienste mit Scheuklappen: das Dispositiv der Massenvernichtungswaffen als Legitimation für Nationale Sicherheit nach 9/11
AU  - van der Heide, Liesbeth
PY  - 2013
PB  - HSR (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
LA  - eng
KW  - Irak
KW  - Krieg
KW  - Massenvernichtungswaffe
KW  - Legitimation
KW  - 21. Jahrhundert
KW  - nationale Sicherheit
KW  - Geheimdienst
KW  - USA
KW  - militärische Intervention
KW  - Invasion
KW  - Bush
KW  - G
KW  - Terrorismusbekämpfung
KW  - Sicherheit
KW  - Theorie
KW  - Nahost
KW  - Diskurs
KW  - CIA
KW  - internationale Politik
KW  - internationale Sicherheit
KW  - Asien
KW  - arabische Länder
KW  - Iraq
KW  - war
KW  - weapon of mass destruction
KW  - twenty-first century
KW  - national security
KW  - secret service
KW  - United States of America
KW  - military intervention
KW  - fight against terrorism
KW  - security
KW  - theory
KW  - Middle East
KW  - discourse
KW  - CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
KW  - international politics
KW  - international security
KW  - Asia
KW  - Arab countries
AB  - The Claim that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) led to the invasion of frag in 2003 by the US army. For the George W. Bush administration, the likely presence of WMD in Iraq was the major justification for boing to war. However, Bush' opponents suspected he used the WMD-dispositive as a legitimation for an invasion that was already set in motion for different reasons. The Iraq invasion and the underlying ideas about the presence of WMD thus provide a tangible case for the analysis of theories of conspiracy and security. The development of the WMD-dispositive will be contextualized using the toolkit of securitization theory. The article explores the notions of security and conspiracy that were used to build the dispositive and shows how it ultimately failed and turned into a counter-narrative in which the Bush administration itself became the Great Conspirator.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.38.2013.1.286-307
DO  - 10.12759/hsr.38.2013.1.286-307
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/base-ftdara:oai:oai.da-ra.de:603178
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -