Bill Clinton’s “new partnership” anecdote

Toward a post-Cold War foreign policy rhetoric

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ID6084814
AuthorsJason A Edwards, Jason Edwards (0000-0002-5032-4965), Joseph M Valenzano, Joseph M Valenzano Iii
Year2007
Volume6
Issue3
Pages303-325
Publication date2007-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.6.3.03edw
OpenAlexW2037062187
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

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

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