Rhetoric, Media, and the Narratives of US Foreign Policy

Making Enemies

Adam Lusk

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781032169958
• eBook ISBN: 9781000527599
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Diplomacy & Treaties
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Rhetoric, Media, and the Narratives of US Foreign Policy: Making Enemies studies the process of communicating threats to the US public and explores when and why the American public believes another country or regime is a threat.

Through a comparative and historical study, the author focuses on how the media environment enables and constrains rhetorical strategies deployed to construct, reproduce, and change narratives about a threat. Recent literature on threat inflation, securitization, and critical security studies returned to the concept of "threat." Building on this renewed conceptual attention, this book examines why and how policy makers and other public figures, in particular the President, convince the public about a threat and will be of interest to students and academics in the disciplines of political science, international relations, foreign policy, security studies, and contemporary history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• About the author
• Preface and acknowledgments
• 1 Threats as social facts
• 2 Toward a theory of threat legitimation
• 3 “Sister” Chile and “saving” Cuba: newspaper and logos
• 4 Democracy and dictatorship: threats of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the radio age
• 5 Freedom fighters and the drug lord: threats of Nicaragua and Noriega during television media ecology
• 6 Conclusion
• Index