Foreign Policy Discourses of the Obama Years
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Foreign Policy Discourses of the Obama Years

  1. 177 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Foreign Policy Discourses of the Obama Years

About this book

For any action in foreign policy to be possible, it has to first appear as plausible in the spoken and written discourses of foreign policy. This is the basic axiom at the core of the case studies that Kovács carries out in Foreign Policy Discourses of the Obama Years. In each case study, she investigates discursive products such as presidential speeches and news accounts, with the purpose of teasing out the types of meanings that emerge. These meanings, she argues, have an impact on the types of foreign policy action the Obama administration could plausibly undertake. The findings show both that foreign policy in the US is mostly understood and evaluated in terms of its impact on domestic politics, and that the study of discourses surrounding foreign policy is a useful tool for assessing administrations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreign Policy Discourses of the Obama Years
  3. Foreign Policy Discourses of the Obama Years
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter 1
  7. Politics, Discourse, Policy
  8. Chapter 2
  9. New President, New Discourse, New Policy?
  10. Chapter 3
  11. Troop Increases in Afghanistan, Troop Withdrawal from Iraq
  12. Chapter 4
  13. Osama bin Laden and the Usefulness of an Iconic Adversary
  14. Chapter 5
  15. Under Attack
  16. Chapter 6
  17. Speaking of Syria
  18. Chapter 7
  19. What It Takes to Intervene
  20. Conclusion
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. About the Author

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