Bill Clinton’s “new partnership” anecdote : Toward a post-Cold War foreign policy rhetoric Toward a post-Cold War foreign policy rhetoric

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Beteiligte: Edwards, Jason A., Valenzano III, Joseph M.
In: Journal of Language and Politics, 6, 2007, 3, S. 303-325
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Umfang: 303-325
ISSN: 1569-2159
1569-9862
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.6.3.03edw
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Language and Politics
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: John Benjamins Publishing Company (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>This essay explores the composition of United States post-Cold War foreign policy rhetoric under President Bill Clinton. We contend that Bill Clinton offered a coherent and comprehensive foreign policy narrative for the direction of U.S. foreign policy discourse in the post-Cold War world. Specifically, we analyze the “new partnership” narrative that Clinton articulated in his 1998 trip to Africa as a representative anecdote for the larger body of his foreign policy discourse. This “new partnership” narrative was structured by three narrative themes: (1) America’s role as world leader; (2) reconstituting the threat environment; (3) democracy promotion as the strategy for American foreign policy. These three themes can be found throughout Clinton’s foreign policy rhetoric and serve as the basis for a foreign policy narrative used by Clinton, and perhaps, future administrations.</jats:p>