Obama y el Islam: el realismo cristiano en la retórica del discurso y la praxis política del presidente Barack H. Obama ante el Islam

• José Cepedello Boiso ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Pablo de Olavide

     Universidad Pablo de Olavide

     Sevilla, España

     
• Localización: Revista internacional de pensamiento político, ISSN 1885-589X, Nº. 9, 2014, págs. 31-51
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Obama and Islam : Christian realism in the rhetorical discourse and political praxis of president Barack H. Obama before Islam
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  • español

    En el presente artículo se aborda el tema de las relaciones entre la retórica discursiva y la acción política del presidente de los EE.UU. de Barack H. Obama, en relación con uno de los elementos más determinantes de la política internacional en el mundo contemporáneo: el Islam político.

    Con tal fin, dado que el Islam político se constituye como la interpretación política establecida sobre la base de un credo religioso, para afrontar la cuestión, se analiza el sustrato religioso y filosófico sobre el que el propio Barack H. Obama declara que se constituye su estrategia política: el realismo cristiano del filósofo norteamericano, Reinhold Niebuhr. En último lugar, se analizan las relaciones existentes entre el discurso político de Barack H.

    Obama en referencia al Islam, sustentado en el citado realismo cristiano, y la acción política efectiva desarrollada en el mundo islámico durante sus mandatos presidenciales.

  • English

    In this paper, we discuss the relationships between the discursive rhetoric and the political action of US President, Barack H. Obama, with respect to one of the more decisive element of international politics in the contemporary world: political Islam. With this aim, since political Islam is set as the political interpretation established on the basis of religious creed, to address this issue we analyze the religious and philosophical substrate of Barack H. Obama’s political strategy, as it has been disclosed by himself: the Christian Realism of the American philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr. Finally, we study the linkages between the political discourse of Barack H. Obama referring to Islam, sustained in the aforementioned Christian Realism, and the effective political action developed over the Islamic world during his presidential terms.

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