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Eisenhower Doctrine address -- The Eisenhower Doctrine: a species of containment -- Operation Ajax and the rhetoric of misdirection -- The Baghdad Pact, Project Alpha, and the limits of rhetorical surreption -- Lion's last roar, eagle's first flight: Eisenhower at Suez -- The doctrine applied: intervention in Lebanon and the rhetoric of justification

Given on January 5, 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine Address forever changed America's relationship with the Middle East. In the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, President Dwight D. Eisenhower boldly declared that the United States would henceforth serve as the region's "protector of freedom" against Communist aggression. Eighteen months later the president invoked the Eisenhower Doctrine, landing troops in Lebanon and setting an enduring precedent for U.S. intervention in the Middle East. How did Eisenhower justify this intervention to an American public wary of foreign entanglements? Why did he boldly issue the doctrine that bears his name? And, most important, how has Eisenhower's rhetoric continued to influence American policy and perception of the Middle East? Randall Fowler answers these questions and more in More Than a Doctrine. With the expansion of America's global influence and the executive branch's power, presidential rhetoric has become an increasingly important tool in U.S. foreign policy--nowhere more so than in the Middle East. By examining Eisenhower's rhetoric, More Than a Doctrine explores how the argumentative origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine Address continue to impact us today.

"A president unlike any other, Franklin D. Roosevelt's legacy in foreign affairs has been contested since the second he left office. Although few scholars assert that FDR's actions directly led to the Cold War, many note that his presidency bears an ambiguous relationship to the superpower rivalry that followed him. In Something to Fear, the authors show that Roosevelt's rhetoric, vision, and policies promoted a broadly defined sense of American security over a 33-year time span, ultimately helping elevate security to a primary value in U.S. political discourse by the end of his presidency. In doing so, however, they argue that he also heightened the prominence of insecurity in American public life, mediating the United States' transition to superpower status in a way that also elevated fear in debates over foreign affairs. To demonstrate these contrarian claims, they examine a series of thematic snapshots encompassing FDR's entire political career. They capture the progression of his security rhetoric from his first campaign for New York State Senator to his defeat of the anti-interventionist movement and instantiation of a new way of talking about the United States' role in the world during World War II. Roosevelt's presidency precipitated a complex shift in U.S. foreign policy that defies any straightforward account organized along a linear isolationist-to-interventionist trajectory. This study investigates the uncertainties and contradictions embedded in FDR's presidential rhetoric, which drew from realist, racial, progressive, nostalgic, apocalyptic, liberal internationalist, and American exceptionalist discourses with little consideration for the possible inconsistencies this paradoxical brew might contain. In this way, Roosevelt's rhetoric anticipated the ambivalences contained in American adventures abroad ever since"--

AbstractAdapting a Burkean approach to rhetorical tropes, this essay argues that polysyndeton comprises a significant trope shaping political communication via social media. We argue that polysyndeton reflects the cultural dynamics of liquid modernity and furnishes an organizational logic to a particular domain of human symbolic action, namely, social media. Because polysyndeton dually stresses amplification and association, grouping things that do not have a necessary relationship and delivering them to an audience as an undifferentiated mass, it is perfectly suited to serve as a lens for interpreting the political and cultural complexities of our present era, including the Capitol Riot of January 6, 2021.