This is developed through an examination of two crucial episodes in the construction of post-Cold War US national security interests: the crisis in the Persian Gulf in 1990-1 and the North Korean nuclear crisis in 1993-4. The article argues that the puzzle of how US post-Cold War foreign and defence policy came to be focused on 'irrational' - but militarily inferior - adversaries can be understood through analysing how actors within the US defence community discursively constructed discrete international crises as the trigger for a major shift in US threat scenarios. Bush administration's 'Global War on Terror' and President Bush's representation of Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an 'axis of evil'. This article examines how the foundations of the 'rogue states' security narrative in the United States developed prior to the declaration of the George W. Rebels without a conscience: The evolution of the rogue states narrative in US security policyĮuropean Journal of International Relations 17(4) 705-727 © The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.Ĭo.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1354066110383996
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