Research Catalog

Title

America responds to terrorism : conflict resolution strategies of Clinton, Bush, and Obama / Karen A. Feste.

Author

Feste, Karen A.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Description

276 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"What policy is best for the United States to reduce the threat of Islamic extremist terrorism? Recent American presidents have applied alternative conflict resolution approaches. Clinton practiced conflict avoidance, talking tough but rarely retaliating against anti-American terrorist attacks. G. W. Bush adopted a fighter approach and the Global War on Terrorism and military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq reflect this strategy. Obama introduced a third alternative: problem solving and extending peaceful overtures while keeping up resistance. Will the strategy succeed? Feste analyzes presidential rhetoric on counterterrorism policy through the lens of issue framing, enemy aggression, self -hardship, and victimization expressed in a variety of speeches delivered by these chief executives to highlight and compare their conflict resolution strategies"--

Series Statement

Evolving American presidency

Uniform Title

Evolving American presidency.

Subject

• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism
• Terrorism > Government policy > United States
• Terrorism > United States > Prevention
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
• Conflict management
• Central government
• Political control & freedoms
• Political science & theory
• Politics and Government
• Terrorism > Government policy
• Terrorism > Prevention
• Terrorism, armed struggle

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: One. Frame Theory -- Two. Presidential Frames of Terrorism -- Three. Framing Conflict Escalation: United States versus al Qaeda/Islamic Extremism -- Four. Framing the Terrorism Threat -- Five. Framing Terrorism Conflict Resolution -- Six. Framing Analysis: Evaluating Presidential Statements -- Seven. Bill Clinton: Conflict Avoidance Strategy -- Eight. George W. Bush: Fight-to-Win Strategy -- Nine. Barack Obama: Problem-Solving Strategy.

ISBN

• 9780230623569 (hardback)
• 0230623565 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2010044001

OCLC

• 749911366
• 666237418

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library