Dieudonné, Jérémy
[UCL]
This work investigates the process through which Iran comes to be perceived and defined in the United States. It takes specific interest in the actions of Israel and pro-Israel actors as vocal partakers in that process. It focuses on the process in which Israel and pro-Israel actors in the United States strive to make their narrative dominant in the field of “defining the trilateral relationship between the US, Iran and Israel”. Combining securitization theory, studies on identification and recent approaches to dominant narratives, it contends that the pro-Israel actors manage to overload the field to the extent that concurrent narratives are prevented to emerge. Through the various means examined by this work - formal and informal lobbying, financial support, Congress hearings, information providing, media appearances and general field saturation - these actors make Iran policy “a minefield”, that is a field one is deterred to enter. This work is based on 23 interviews with American lawmakers’ chiefs of staff and national security advisors, ex-government officials, journalists and lobbyists. It further relies on official documents, such as lobbying disclosures and Congress hearings. These materials suggest a near-monopoly in the knowledge and information production about Iran.


Bibliographic reference |
Dieudonné, Jérémy. The “Ironclad Commitment” and the “Rogue Regime”: Israel, the Pro-Israel Network and the Identification of Iran in the United States.BRISMES Annual Conference (Exeter, du 03/07/2023 au 05/07/2023). |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/276473 |