“An Empire for Liberty”: Reassessing US Presidential Foreign Policy Rhetoric

Allison M. Prasch, Mary E. Stuckey

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Abstract

Empire is central to US foreign policy aims but is rarely taken directly into account in studies of American presidential foreign policy rhetoric. We argue here that in doing such studies, analytic attention should be paid to questions of empire as foundational to the development of the United States and to articulations of the American nation. We examine two historical and two heuristic categories used to understand US presidential foreign policy discourse and argue for refocusing analysis by placing questions of whiteness, empire, and colonialism at the core of those categories.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)357-381
Number of pages25
JournalQuarterly Journal of Speech
Volume108
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Communication
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Education

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