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The Idea of an Iraqi Threat: A Constructivist Analysis of George W. Bush’s Securitizing Move After 9/11

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Existing literature explaining the origin of the Iraq War is often either not sufficiently compatible with securitization theory’s assumptions or overlooks the importance of the dynamics preceding the securitization attempt. This article thus seeks to explain why George W. Bush decided to securitize Saddam Hussein’s Iraq by focusing on an individual level analysis of the U.S. president. The article utilizes Roxanna Sjöstedt’s framework that includes the analysis of the idea diffusion process, identities as potential facilitators of idea acceptance and beliefs that affect the individual internalization of the said idea. The results show that all three factors were decisive for the securitization of Iraq to occur. Furthermore, they suggest the implication that individual-level factors also have significant and independent explanatory value in addition to more conventional system-level analyses of international security.

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Existing literature explaining the origin of the Iraq War is often either not sufficiently compatible with securitization theory’s assumptions or overlooks the importance of the dynamics preceding the securitization attempt. This article thus seeks to explain why George W. Bush decided to securitize Saddam Hussein’s Iraq by focusing on an individual level analysis of the U.S. president. The article utilizes Roxanna Sjöstedt’s framework that includes the analysis of the idea diffusion process, identities as potential facilitators of idea acceptance and beliefs that affect the individual internalization of the said idea. The results show that all three factors were decisive for the securitization of Iraq to occur. Furthermore, they suggest the implication that individual-level factors also have significant and independent explanatory value in addition to more conventional system-level analyses of international security.

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