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Fowler, Randall

 
9781643365077: Securing the Prize: Presidential Metaphor and US Intervention in the Persian Gulf
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ISBN 10: 164336507X ISBN 13: 9781643365077
Editorial: University of South Carolina Press, 2024

Sinopsis

How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf

From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduced four metaphors into foreign-policy discourse that taught Americans to view the Persian Gulf as a vulnerable region and site of US responsibility on the world stage. In Securing the Prize: Presidential Metaphor and US Intervention in the Persian Gulf Randall Fowler argues that, for half a century, metaphor has been central to defining America's role in the Middle East. Metaphors served as shorthand for presidents to promote their policies, filtering through the judgments of officials, journalists, experts, and critics to mediate American's perceptions of the Gulf War. Tracing the use of security metaphors from President Richard Nixon to President George W. Bush, Fowler revises mainstream understandings regarding the origins of the war on terror and explains the disconnect between skeptical public attitudes toward US involvement in the Gulf War and the heavy American military footprint in the region.

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Randall Fowler is assistant professor of communication at Abilene Christian University. A former Fulbright scholar, he is author of More Than a Doctrine: The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East and coauthor of Something to Fear: FDR and the Foundations of American Insecurity, 1912–1945.

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Editorial
University of South Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
164336507X
ISBN 13 
9781643365077
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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