TY - T1 - Seeing Good and Evil - A Narrative Approach to Understanding America's Response to the Events of September 11, 2001 SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/12450 T3 - A1 - Sydänmäki, Veera Katariina A2 - PB - Y1 - 2005 LA - en AB - This thesis explores the link between the events of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent initiation of the policy of "war on terror". The theoretical assumption of the thesis forwards that the American political establishment had to give the events of September 11 a meaning in order to create a basis for meaningful action. The analysis therefore explores how the events were represented and how these representations provided the discursive foundation for the formation of the "war on terro... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - narrative; war on terror; United States - foreign policy; discourse analysis N1 - PP - ER -