Wesley Widmaier

Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama

Constructing crises, fast and slow

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracing U.S. shifts from crusading to pragmatic tendencies since its rise as a great power, Widmaier counters the rationalist frameworks which cast crises as mechanisms of efficient, self-reinforcing change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781138790902
• ISBN-10: 1138790907
• Artikelnr.: 40818114

Autorenporträt

Wesley W. Widmaier is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, 2011-2015 at Griffith University Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Constructing Crises, Converting Values, and Credibility Gaps 2.
Wilsonian Transformations: Presidential Rhetoric and Crusading
Internationalism 3. Constructing Cold War Consensus: Truman's Crusade and
Eisenhower's Restraint 4. The Limits to the Cold War Consensus - and to the
Pragmatic Lessons of Vietnam 5. Constructing Liberal Lessons of Vietnam -
and the Limits to Post-Cold War Pragmatism 6. Constructing a Crusading
Freedom Agenda or a Pragmatic Responsibility to Protect 7. Conclusions:
Populism, Intellectualism and the Limits of Foreign Policy by Crisis