TY - JOUR
T1 - “An Empire for Liberty”
T2 - Reassessing US Presidential Foreign Policy Rhetoric
AU - Prasch, Allison M.
AU - Stuckey, Mary E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 National Communication Association.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/00335630.2022.2128202
DO - 10.1080/00335630.2022.2128202
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140008002
SN - 0033-5630
VL - 108
SP - 357
EP - 381
JO - Quarterly Journal of Speech
JF - Quarterly Journal of Speech
IS - 4
ER -