‘Failed states’ as colonial discourse
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https://doi.org/10.30612/rmufgd.v8i15.11534Keywords:
failed states, U.S foreign policy, colonial discourse.Abstract
The article analyses the category of ‘failed states’ as presented in U.S foreign policy documents produced during George W. Bush’s administration (2001-2008) with the purpose of understanding how it was possible to conceive this situation as an event of domestic nature. The hypothesis is that through assumptions based upon rational choice institutionalism, the so-called state failure can be understood as resulting mainly from institutional problems, being judged in light of a Western model of economic and political development. It is an account similar to the idea of Colonial Discourse, as developed by Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, which describes the colonized as a degenerated population whose problems emerge from racial issues that justify conquest and the establishment of administrative systems of control.
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