Winkler In the Name of Terrorism

Presidents on Political Violence in the Post-World War II Era
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8253-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in the Trajectory of Terror

Traces the shifts in presidential discourse on terrorism since World War II.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winkler, Carol K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. What’s in a Name?
Presidential Discourse and Terrorism
Terrorism and Ideology
2. The Vietnam War and the Communist Terrorists
Labeling the Threat
The Terrorist Narrative in the Vietnam War
Terrorism and Ideology
3. The Iranian Hostage Crisis: An American Tragedy
Labeling the Captors
The Narrative of the Iranian Hostage Crisis
Ideology and the Iranian Hostage Crisis
4. Origins of Terrorism as an American Ideograph: The Reagan Era
Labeling the Threat
The Terrorist Narrative in the Reagan Era
Terrorism and Ideology
5. The Persian Gulf Conflict of 1991: The Cold War Narrative in the Post-Cold War Era
Labeling the Crisis
The Narrative of the 1991 Persian Gulf Crisis
Ideology and Persian Gulf Terrorism
6. Terrorism and the Clinton Era: A Prophetic Moment
Labeling the Threat
Clinton’s Terrorist Narrative
Terrorism and Ideology
7. America under Attack: George W. Bush and Noncitizen Actors
Labeling the Crisis
The Terrorist Narrative
Terrorism and Ideology
8. Terrorism and American Culture

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carol K. Winkler is Department Chair and Professor of Communication at Georgia State University. She is the coauthor (with William Newman and David Birdsell) of Lines of Argument for Policy Debate.