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    بناء موضوع الارهاب من طرف خبرة مراكز الفكر في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية والشرق الأوسط منذ 11 سبتمبر 2001
    (جامعة المسيلة, 2025) منـــــــــير ليــــــــــــــمان
    The present thesis aims to analyze how the concept of terrorism has been constructed by the expertise of think tanks (TT) in the United States and the Middle East since September 11, 2001. Giventhat experts are charged withgenerating action-oriented paradigms rather than theoretical explanations, expertise on terrorism is marked by its tendency to neutralize objective and rational explanations, making it primarily a politicized knowledge. The dominant expert paradigms conceptualize terrorism as identity-based; they consist of establishing the link between the terrorist act and the figure of the enemy with the aim of determining the war that political and military actors must conduct. This conceptualization of terrorism is dominant on a transnational level; it shifts from the U.S. center to the Middle Eastern periphery and serves to shape expert consensus. Using the concept of preference falsification developed by TimurKuran, experts tend to select the explanations they express publicly, which necessarily differ from their private preferences. If certain expert explanations are widely shared in the political debate, this means that experts are dominated by the conceptions particularly produced by other political and military actors