1. (R)evolution of an Idea -- 2. Rhetoric of Reconstruction: Containment, Union, and Exceptionalism -- 3. Crisis, Community and the Persian Gulf -- 4. The Soviet Crises and US Public Diplomacy, April 1991 to November 1992 -- 5. The Clinton Reconstruction of 1993: Domestic Renewal and the Global Economy -- Conclusion: American Exceptionalism and US Foreign Policy
Summary
"This book examines a critical period in recent world history (the end of the Cold War) and provides the first in-depth and systematic examination of 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 the relationships between national myths, elite perceptions of the strategic environment, and foreign policy stances. It provides an illustration of how the role and content of rhetoric may be studied to illuminate the sources and tensions of the foreign policy of the United States."--BOOK JACKET
Notes
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 1999
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-248) and index
