Foreign policy discourses of the Obama years /

Empirical case studies demonstrate how foreign policy actions depend on discourse in order to appear possible and to become plausible. This study of discourse is offered as a tool for assessing presidential administrations.

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Main Author: Kovács, Melinda (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.
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