Item Details

title

The Rhetorical Linkage Between Economic and Political Liberalization: A Case Study of the United States' Foreign Policy Response to the Arab Citizen Revolt

author

Slattery, Sean Patrick

abstract

On May 19, 2011, in response to the Arab citizen revolt (ACR), otherwise known as the "Arab Spring," President Barack Obama addressed the future of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East and Northern Africa. This thesis argues that the exigence of the president's address exemplifies a crisis in discourse concerning the "natural" connection between capitalism and democracy. I contend that this time of crisis emerged as the result of a rhetorical struggle between two competing views regarding the bond between economic and political liberalization. In achieving this task, I conduct three separate rhetorical investigations.

subject

Capitalism

Democracy

Economic

MENA

Rhetoric

contributor

Llewellyn, John T (committee chair)

Louden, Allan (committee member)

Atchison, R. Jarrod (committee member)

date

2012-06-12T08:36:08Z (accessioned)

2012 (issued)

degree

Communication (discipline)

embargo

forever (terms)

10000-01-01 (liftdate)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/37314 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis