Wesley Widmaier

Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama (eBook, ePUB)

Constructing crises, fast and slow

• Format: ePub

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
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317650065
• Artikelnr.: 41836462

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