American Exceptionalism and US Foreign Policy: Public Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War

by S. McEvoy-Levy

Overview

The book examines a critical time and place in recent world history (the end of the Cold War) and the strategies and values employed in the public diplomacy of the Bush and Clinton Administrations to build domestic and international consensus. It provides insight into the uses of Presidential power and provides a model and an illustration of how the role of rhetoric may be used to study the foreign policy of the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333800515
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/06/2001
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

SIOBHAN MCEVOY-LEVY is Visiting Assistant Professor at Butler University and Visiting Research Fellow at the Joan B.Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: What is Public Diplomacy? (R)evolution of an Idea Rhetoric of Reconstruction Containment, Union, and Exceptionalism Crisis, Community, and the Persian Gulf The Soviet Crisis and US Public Diplomacy, April 1991 to November 1992 The Clinton Reconstruction of 1993: Domestic Renewal and the Global Economy Conclusion: American Exceptionalism and US Foreign Policy Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

"...covering the regime of George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton's first term...a timely reflection..." - David B. MacDonald, Millennium

McEvoy-Levy does a good job of describing the significance of political rhetoric and identifying major rhetorical themes...

-American Political Science Review

From the Publisher

Studying the rhetoric of senior members of the first Bush and the Clinton administrations (including speeches of the Presidents) as an eye on American foreign policy, McEvoy-Levy (peace and conflict studies, Butler U.), explores the continuing concept of American exceptionalism in the exercise of public diplomacy towards actors abroad and the U.S. population at home. Finding that the continuities between the two administrations outweigh the discontinuities, he argues that the conduct of public policy in these years shows that the use of the rhetoric of exceptionalism can be a powerful force in convincing the American public to go along with the exercise of American power overseas. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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