What policy is best for the United States to reduce the threat of Islamic extremist terrorism? Recent American presidents have applied alternative conflict resolution approaches. Clinton practiced conflict avoidance, talking tough but rarely retaliating against anti-American terrorist attacks. G. W. Bush adopted a fighter approach and the Global War on Terrorism and military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq reflect this strategy. Obama introduced a third alternative: problem solving and extending peaceful overtures while keeping up resistance. Will the strategy succeed? Feste analyzes presidential rhetoric on counterterrorism policy through the lens of issue framing, enemy aggression, self -hardship, and victimization expressed in a variety of speeches delivered by these chief executives to highlight and compare their conflict resolution strategies.


About the Author:

Karen A. Feste is a Professor at the University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies. She directs two graduate programs: Conflict Resolution and International Security. Her previous publications include Plans for Peace: Negotiation and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; Expanding the Frontiers: Superpower Intervention in the Cold War; Intervention: Shaping the Global Order; and Terminate Terrorism: Framing, Gaming, and Negotiating Conflicts. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.


# Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (April 15, 2011)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0230623565
# ISBN-13: 978-0230623569