A Scholar to Scholar Roundtable: Crossing Borders, Crossing Swords: Bridging Divides in Contemporary Foreign Policy Discourse

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar Presents: Dialogues about Communication and Culture

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This panel discusses connections within contemporary foreign policy discourse, including how transforming ‘just war’ into ‘just peace’ limits how differences between audience communities can be bridged, how an ideology of American exceptionalism can bridge the seemingly disparate presidencies of Bush and Obama, how phronesis can operate as a tool for connecting judgment and contingency in outlining global human rights, and how a link is drawn between U.S. drug enforcement policy and democracy promotion in Colombia.

Sub Unit

• Scholar to Scholar

Individual Presentations

• From Counter-Terror to ‘Counter-Drugs’: the Ideologies of Enforcement and Democracy Promotion in the US Congressional Debate Over Plan Colombia - Matthew Bost, Univ of Minnesota

• It’s ‘Just Peace’: Constituting Friends and Enemies in Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech - Kaitlyn Patia, Univ of Minnesota

• The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Obama’s West Point Address on Afghanistan - Shana Bridges, Indiana University

• Prudent Rhetoric: Implications of Justifying Means Over Ends in Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy - Gregory Dorchak, University of Massachusetts, Amherst