“9·11”后布什政府对“敌人”的建构

Bush Administration's Efforts of Constructing America's Enemy Post-9/11

“9·11”恐怖主义袭击带来的最迫切需要是识别出美国的敌人。对敌人的建构包括两个方面,即对敌人的抽象化与非人化,对自身国家的拟人化。本文考察了布什政府在“9·11”后对其“敌人”的建构,认为其努力既有成功之处,也有失败之处。它成功地塑造了敌人“邪恶”和自身“善”的形象,但这只会是短期的成功。由于恐怖主义的性质,美国又不得不将敌人具体化、扩大化,从而导致了美国在“9·11”后建构“敌人”的长期失败。

The most important challenge of terrorist attack of Sep. 11, 2001 for U.S. is to identify the enemy of U.S. To construct an enemy includes two dimensions, abstraction and dehumanization of the enemy, and personification of the nation. This paper observes the construction of America＇s enemy post-9/11, and concludes that this effort has its success and failure. Its success of constructing the evil enemy and good self is of short-term. Because of the particularity of terrorism, America must embody and enlarge the enemy, which deems its long-term failure.