Melinda Kovács

Foreign Policy Discourses of the Obama Years

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Empirical case studies demonstrate how foreign policy actions depend on discourse in order to appear possible and to become plausible. This study of discourse is offered as a tool for assessing presidential administrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9781498520805
• ISBN-10: 1498520804
• Artikelnr.: 49456338

Autorenporträt

Melinda Kovács is assistant professor of political science at Missouri Western State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Politics
Discourse
Policy Chapter 2: New President
New Discourse
New Policy? Chapter 3: Troop Increases in Afghanistan
Troop Withdrawal from Iraq-Is It All About Middle Eastern Policy? Chapter 4: Osama bin Laden and the Usefulness of an Iconic Adversary Chapter 5: Under Attack: Benghazi and the Responses Chapter 6: Speaking of Syria: How Discourse Can Get Away from an Administration Chapter 7: What It Takes to Intervene-Changes from 2013 to 2014 Conclusion: Not So Foreign
Not So New