American Exceptionalism and US Foreign Policy

SIOBHAN MCEVOY-LEVY is Visiting Assistant Professor at Butler University and Visiting Research Fellow at the Joan B.Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: What is Public Diplomacy? (R)evolution of an Idea Rhetoric of Reconstruction Containment, Union, and Exceptionalism Crisis, Community, and the Persian Gulf The Soviet Crisis and US Public Diplomacy, April 1991 to November 1992 The Clinton Reconstruction of 1993: Domestic Renewal and the Global Economy Conclusion: American Exceptionalism and US Foreign Policy Bibliography Index

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