Remi Brulin
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| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne Nouvelle |
| Interests | terrorism,Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism,Washington Conference on International Terrorism |
An academic who rejects the word "terrorism" as a tool of propaganda | |
Remi Brulin is a French academic who rejects the word "terrorism" as a tool of propaganda.[1][2]
Education
He completed his PhD in US History from La Sorbonne Nouvelle (France) in 2011 with the dissertation The American Discourse on terrorism: Constitution, evolution and contexts of enunciation (1972-1992).[3]
Career
He is a former adjunct and research fellow at NYU and George Washington University, and Adjunct Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.[3]
Works
Brulin wrote how Israel used the rhetoric around "terrorism" frame use of military power as a "moral" issue of good versus evil, and how this rhetorical device was coordinated with the US neoconservatives at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism:
The rhetoric of "terrorism" as it would fully congeal and come together in the late 1970s and early 1980s, would do its most important work at the moral level. It would frame any qualms or doubts about the use of military force as a moral failure of the highest order, as a symptom of the growing inability, in a rich, comfortable West, to see the nature and seriousness of the dangers that did continue to threaten the civilized world, as a form of moral decay. In this basic, Manichean morality tale, the "terrorist" would represent the ultimate, essential "evil," an enemy whose immoral means pointed to the immorality of its true ends. The very notion that "our" methods may be compared to those of the "terrorists" would thus be delegitimized as yet another failure of the liberal mindset, a form of "moral relativism" that compounded the West's failure of nerve and will. Indeed, "our" uses of force came only in self-defense, literally forced upon us by a world where military might did, indeed, continue to play a central role.[4]
References
- ↑ https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1636032
- ↑ https://www.academia.edu/81464765/Compartmentalization_contexts_of_speech_and_the_Israeli_origins_of_the_American_discourse_on_terrorism_
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.e-ir.info/author/remi-brulin/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20211225131539/https://www.academia.edu/24434467/The_Jerusalem_and_Washington_Conferences_on_International_Terrorism_Israel_s_Influence_on_the_Shaping_of_the_American_Discourse_on_Terrorism_in_the_Early_1980s