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

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.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Slattery, Sean Patrick

• Capitalism

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/37314

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/37314