Presidential Rhetoric From Wilson to Obama - Constructing Crises, Fast and Slow

List of contents

1. Constructing Crises, Converting Values, and Credibility Gaps 2. Wilsonian Transformations: Presidential Rhetoric and Crusading Internationalism 3. Constructing Cold War Consensus: Truman’s Crusade and Eisenhower’s Restraint 4. The Limits to the Cold War Consensus – and to the Pragmatic Lessons of Vietnam 5. Constructing Liberal Lessons of Vietnam – and the Limits to Post-Cold War Pragmatism 6. Constructing a Crusading Freedom Agenda or a Pragmatic Responsibility to Protect 7. Conclusions: Populism, Intellectualism and the Limits of Foreign Policy by Crisis

About the author

Wesley W. Widmaier is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, 2011-2015 at Griffith University Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University.

Summary

Tracing U.S. shifts from crusading to pragmatic tendencies since its rise as a great power, Widmaier counters the rationalist frameworks which cast crises as mechanisms of efficient, self-reinforcing change.

Product details

• Authors: Wesley Widmaier, Widmaier Wesley
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2014
• EAN: 9781138790902
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79090-2
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, North America, military history, International Relations, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science, Political structures / systems: democracy