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
Summary
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
Notes
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 1999
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-248) and index