The veridiction process and planetary governamentality in securitization of terrorism during the George W. Bush administration
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The immediate post-Cold War inaugurated a period full of new conflicts at a global level, which were structured in a different logic from the traditional perspective of interstate clashes. These frictions have among their main characteristics the role of non-state actors and the transterritorial character of the new threats to global governance, as can be seen in contemporary terrorism. Attentive to this dynamic and based on Michel Foucault's analytical-methodological contributions to discourse analysis, in this article we propose to analyze the extent to which the veridiction process - as construction of “truth regimes” - supported the actions of the US government of George W. Bush against groups defined as fundamentalist terrorists. Having the hypothesis that the new security devices are formulated in order to establish policing actions that is not restricted to the internal scope of certain States, we appropriate the notions of “governmentality” by Foucault (2016) and “diplomatic-police device” by Rodrigues (2013) to indicate the transterritoriality of security policies targeting terrorism. Specifically, we investigate the Patriot Act (2001) and the National Security Strategy (2002) to verify the speeches contribute to the formulation of US security policies, favoring the establishment of a planetary governmentality anchored in repression actions, prevention and control under certain groups and populations commonly associated with terrorism. In this sense, we observe how the strengthening of the status of truth for certain discourses about contemporary terrorism allows the materialization of conduct policing practices (diplomatic-police device) in favor of planetary security.
Keywords: Terrorism; Truth Regimes; Diplomatic-police device; Bush Administration; Planetary Governmentality.
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