Development Discourse of the Millennium Challenge CorporationThis paper introduces development discourse as an expression of U.S. foreign policy; explores its vocabulary and discursive constructions specific to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and assess the influence of economic growth as a controlling vocabulary for the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s interactions with foreign governments and the general public.
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Identity Formation and Expression within the Arab Public SphereThis article, published in Review of Communication 7, no. 1 (January 2007): 21-36, presents a research agenda for communication and terrorism studies, based on common interest in the formation and expression of Arab and Muslim identity. |
Primer on Rhetorical Criticism -- Methods Useful in Information AnalysisThis paper has a two-fold objective: 1) to sensitize counter-terrorism subject matter experts and others to the diversity within the rhetorical analysis knowledge domain; and 2) to suggest promising applications to supplement information analysis, including hypothesis generation and leadership analysis in particular.
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Rhetorical Markers of Progressive Era Child AdvocatesThis paper offers preliminary observations on the rhetorical strategies of advocates of the Child Labor Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I share my observations—roughly hewn—as an aid to other scholars interested in the rhetorical strategies of child labor reform.
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World Views and Their Rhetorical Expression in the Truman and Bush DoctrinesThis paper works employs Symbolic Convergence Theory within a comparative framework of the Cold War and Global War on Terrorism, to explore how Presidents Truman and Bush rhetorically expressed their world views through policy pronouncements. |
On Truth -- A Survey of Contemporary Rhetorical TheoryHow contemporary rhetorical theorists have asserted themselves on the locus of truth not only binds contemporary rhetorical theory in the assumption of a symbolically constituted world, but also distinguishes some of the key moves within the theoretical framework. In this essay, we start with the confrontational, turn to the conciliatory, and make our way back to the middle. |
Terrorism, Security and Diplomacy through the Lens of
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory