Week 8: 'Enemies of America'
(02.11.21)
This session will be dedicated to the discussion of the 'enemies of America'. Topics to be addressed are the following: Who are America’s Greatest Enemies? How do we find them? Changing Enemies, Axis of Evil, The Classic Enemy: Soviets/Communists/Russia.
Mandatory reading
Pokliatska, V. (2015). The Evolution of the “Enemy Image” In American-Soviet Relations From 1979 to 1991. Codrul Cosminului, 21(1). |
Merskin, D. (2004). The construction of Arabs as enemies: Post-September 11 discourse of George W. Bush. Mass Communication & Society, 7(2), 157-175. |
Further Reading
Hoyt, P. D. (2000). The ‘rogue state’ image in American foreign policy. Global Society, 14(2), 297-310. |
Flanagan, J. C. (2004). Woodrow Wilson's" Rhetorical Restructuring": The Transformation of the American Self and the Construction of the German Enemy. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 7(2), 115-148. |
Fiebig-von Hase, R., & Lehmkuhl, U. (Eds.). (1998). Enemy images in American history. Berghahn Books. |
| Magnúsdóttir, R. (2018). Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959. Oxford University Press, USA. |