Kebangkitan Gerakan Politik Islam dalam Pergolakan Suriah menurut Persepsi Amerika Serikat:(sudi kasus : Persepsi AS terhadap Jabhad Al- Nusrah si Suriah).

Danial Darwis, Usmar Salam

2015 | Tesis | Ilmu Hubungan Internasional

ABSTRACT Resurgence of Islamic political movements in the perception of the United States is seen as a threat, the threat potential appears in a social context during the process of interaction occurs between the United States with a variety of Islamic political movements, even the potential threat posed by Islamic political movements are synchronized with the threat of Communism in the Cold War era. The potential threat of re-emerging in the US perception of the phenomenon of the rise of Islamic political movements in the upheaval that took place in Syria which is characterized by the emergence of a wide variety of militant groups Islamic Jihad who wish to establish an Islamic state in Syria, especially those among them is Jabhat al Nusra. This study focuses on an attempt to explain the reasons that led to the United States perceive the rise of Islamic political movements in the upheaval that occurred in Syria as a threat. This research is an explanatory research by collecting data through a literature review. In this study, the authors use the concept of Islamic political movement and perspective of constructivism as the basic framework of thinking. The results of this study indicate that the rise of Islamic political movements in the upheaval that occurred in Syria perceived by the United States as a threat. The threat is the construction of social reality that emerged from the US states of mind when security and the threat it perceives itself, which in turn caused by the differences between the two opposing identities and conflicts of interest are different. Identity construction of the United States is a nation where people uphold the values of democracy, freedom and human rights, as well as a global superpower that has the responsibility of maintaining the stability of the Middle East region from the threat posed by extremist Islamic political movement that led to domestic terrorism and internationally. Meanwhile, the phenomenon of Islamic political movements in Syria showed active demand and support for beliefs, prescriptions, laws derived from the character and identity of Islam, where the Al- Nusra Front group intends to establish an Islamic state which subsequently entered by the United States to in the list of terrorist organizations. Keywords: Resurgence, Islamic Political Movement (Al-Nusra Front), Perception United States, the Syrian upheaval, Perspective of Constructivism.

Kata Kunci : Danial Darwis