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    THE NEGLECTED NARRATIVE THE NEED FOR A NEW PARADIGM REGARDING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND IRAQ

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    Holmes, Celeste Inez
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    VOLL, DR. JOHN O
    Abstract
    THE NEGLECTED NARRATIVE: THE NEED FOR A NEW PARADIGM
     
    REGARDING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND IRAQ
     
    Celeste Inez Holmes, B.A.
     
    MALS Mentor: John O. Voll, Ph.D.
     
    ABSTRACT
     
    Throughout the history of the United States, U.S. Foreign Policy has been guided by the dominant paradigm and narrative of the day. Both the paradigm and the resulting narratives begin as responses to internal and external events confronting the nation. However, over time, paradigms continue to exercise undue influence, even as events pass them by. This pattern of narrative development, promulgation, implementation, and eventual irrelevance has repeated itself many times over the course of U.S. history, as happened with George F. Kennan's policy of Containment, and Hans J. Morgenthau's Realpolitik. Likewise, U.S. foreign policy in Iraq has been driven by an outdated policy paradigm and accompanying narratives that have been in place for many years. This thesis will address the way the paradigm is structured and operates through Thomas J. Kuhn's priority of paradigms analysis, the full manifestation of and proliferation of the body of the paradigm, coupled with discourse analysis. This thesis will show the consequences resulting from the use of the outdated paradigms and the narratives that were the driving force behind U.S. Foreign Policy in Iraq.
     
    Description
    M.A.L.S.
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/558354
    Date Published
    2013
    Subject
    International relations; Islam and culture; International relations; Islamic culture;
    Type
    thesis
    Publisher
    Georgetown University
    Extent
    87 leaves
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