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1 online resource (272 pages) |
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U.S. Foreign Policy Discourse and the Israel Lobby; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Influence of the Lobby?; 1.2 Foreign Policy Discourse Analysis; 1.3 Book Structure; Note; 2 Talking About the Pro-Israel Lobby; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Lobby Groups; Lobby Groups and American Pluralism; Lobbying and Political Institutions; Lobbying and Public Opinion; 2.3 Mearsheimer and Walt's Israel Lobby; Criticisms of General Argument; Problems of Policymaking; The Pro-Israel Lobby, the Executive and Congress; Strategic Asset?; Christian Zionism; Public Discourse |
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2.4 ConclusionNotes; 3 Theory and Methodology; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Argument and Hypotheses; Defining Discourse; 3.3 Theoretical Approach; Allison's Models of Analysis; Key Signifiers -- Nodal Points, Master Signifiers and Myths; Group Formation and Representation; Social Antagonism and Hegemony; Ideology: American Exceptionalism and American Foreign Policy Discourse; Exceptionalism and Identity; Exceptionalism and Foreign Policy; The Construction of Relationships in US Foreign Policy; 3.4 Methodological Approach; Discursive Practices Approach; Other Methodological Factors; 3.5 Conclusion |
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Note4 The Ideological Myth: American Exceptionalism, Identity and Difference; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Ideological Myth of American Exceptionalism; Key Signifiers of American Exceptionalism; Relationally Constructed American Identity; 4.3 The Historic Arab 'Other' and Exceptionalism; An American Abroad in the Orient; Presence of Palestine; 4.4 The Clinton Administration and American Exceptionalism; Predication; Presupposition; Subject Positioning; 4.5 Conclusion; 5 The Clinton Administration's Foreign Policy Discourse and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; 5.1 Introduction |
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5.2 Battles for Discursive Meaning: Defining the US RoleFinding a New Foreign Policy Framework; The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Cold War Consistency Through Change; 5.3 American Renewal and Foreign Policy; Terrorism; The Israel-Palestine Conflict and 'The Peacemaker'; 5.4 The Clinton Administration's Israel-Palestine Discourse; Predication; Presupposition; Subject Positioning; 5.5 Conclusion; Notes; 6 The Power of the Pro-Israel Lobby; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Lobbying for Israel; American Exceptionalism and Support for Israel; The Pro-Israel Lobby; Dominance and Discourse |
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The Pro-Israel Lobby and American Politics6.3 The Role of AIPAC: History and Lobbying the Clinton Administration; AIPAC and Policy Influence Record; Working Within Foreign Policy Discourse; AIPAC, the Clinton Administration and the Peace Process; 6.4 AIPAC's Discourse on the Peace Process; Predication; Presupposition; Subject Positioning; 6.5 Conclusion; 7 Camp David and Discursive Power in Action; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Explaining the Failure to Agree; Enduring Representations; Framing Negotiations; 7.3 The Clinton Administration and Final Status Negotiations; Predication; Presupposition |
| Summary |
This book seeks to debunk the popular myth of an all-powerful pro-Israel lobby. Here, Kiely demonstrates how discourses surrounding American Identity and US foreign policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has deep roots in American historicity, have constructed an understanding of the conflict which is inherently more susceptible to the Israeli narrative. Kiely argues that the so-called power of what other researchers, such as Mearsheimer and Walt (2006, 2007), call 'The Israel Lobby' are limited by these discourses. It is the author's contention that groups such as The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) serve to amplify and reproduce existing representations within these discourses which align the United States and Israel in terms of cultural, historical and political values while simultaneously reinforcing dominant representations of the Palestinian 'Other' |
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Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Politics & government.
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Political science & theory.
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International relations.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Arab-Israeli conflict
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Diplomatic relations
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Israel
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Palestine
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Israel -- Foreign relations -- United States
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Palestine -- Foreign relations -- United States
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Middle East -- Palestine
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Israel
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319529868 |
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3319529862 |
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