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HILLARY CLINTON MOBILIZES INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AGAINST IRAN WITH THE TRADITIONAL RHETORIC OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY

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HILLARY CLINTON MOBILIZES INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AGAINST IRAN WITH THE TRADITIONAL RHETORIC OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY
author
Osborn, Martin T.
abstract
In January 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton confidentially sent a diplomatic cable to the international community. In it, she sought "to secure the cooperation of" concerned recipients with America's strategy for dissuading Iran from developing nuclear weapons. This thesis implements the Performative Traditions approach while retrieving the political and historical dynamics which best contextualize Clinton's effort. Given former president George W. Bush's tragic misconstruction of the Iraq WMD threat, and the subsequently restrictive expectations of American foreign policy, Clinton summons a number of the traditional rhetorical devices associated with Woodrow Wilson's notion of collective security; although her cable appears simple, almost neutral, she employs an idiom of internationalism, dually voiced from objective and leadership perspectives, within a temporal structure which preserves strategic flexibility while naturalizing U.S. hegemony. The risks commonly associated with the spread of nuclear weapons and pressing questions about America's increasingly sketch reputation bestow importance on this particular address, suggesting its preeminence among those American diplomatic communications which were "wiki-leaked."
subject
diplomacy
Hillary Clinton
Iran
nuclear proliferation
performative traditions
rhetorical tradition
contributor
Atchison, Robert J (committee chair)
Hyde, Michael J (committee member)
Louden, Allan (committee member)
date
2012-06-12T08:35:52Z (accessioned)
2014-06-12T08:30:08Z (available)
2012 (issued)
degree
Communication (discipline)
embargo
2014-06-12 (terms)
identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10339/37268 (uri)
language
en (iso)
publisher
Wake Forest University
type
Thesis

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