{"product_id":"beyond-the-cold-war-9781433195235","title":"Beyond the Cold War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost books about presidential rhetoric focus on the United States. Few American communication scholars concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe. Media pundits and scholars alike framed this region as a place used for the United States' or Russia's Cold War endseven after the Cold War ended. \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Cold War: Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe \u003c\/i\u003ebrings scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and the United States together to study presidential rhetoric to make a compelling case for treating the leaders of the region with their own agency, rather than as agents of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs postcolonial agents, leaders in the region have taken contrasting positions, avoiding the influence of post-Soviet politics and the pull toward westernization. Chapters offer insight into the connections and influence of presidential rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe to contextualize and better understand how the rhetoric has either helped or hindered the development of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edited volume on presidential rhetoric in post-Soviet Central and Eastern Europe features a set of clearly and crisply written chapters that provide theoretically informed analyses and critiques of political discourse in Poland, Romania, Belarus, Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Slovakia—places beyond the reach of rhetorical scholarship not so long ago. It examines presidential rhetoric building national identity, modeling prudential leadership, and more. We also witness Trump in Warsaw abetting a racist right-wing nationalism and end with Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s emergence as a heroic symbol of democracy.  Robert L. Ivie Professor Emeritus, English (Rhetoric) and American Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington\u003cbr\u003eThe emergence of the institution of the presidency, albeit in different constitutional forms, has marked Central and Eastern Europe’s detachment from the legacies of communist rule. This edited collection puts scholars rooted in the region in a productive conversation with the Western tradition of presidential rhetorical studies. The essays bring forth novel and nuanced insights into the role of presidential rhetoric in the region’s transformation, demonstrating its renewed relevance on the global political stage.  Zornitsa Keremidchieva Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive set of perspectives on presidential rhetoric on and from Eastern and Central Europe that creates an important collection of historic public discourse in the area. Well documented, providing well-rounded scholarship, the book makes a major contribution to the study of presidential rhetoric and its complex constructs of political style in communist and post-communist contexts.   Noemi Marin Professor of Rhetoric, Florida Atlantic University, USA\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the Cold War lives up to its title. This collection of smart, insightful, and liberatory studies of Eastern Europe in the rhetorical imaginary of assorted presidents dispenses with outdated frameworks and, instead, takes these nations on their own terms. As these nations assert an ever more important role in international affairs, this book will become indispensable to those who want to understand their history and discourse.  John M. Murphy Professor, Dept. of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Centering Conversations on Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRebecca M. Townsend\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Reinventing the Polish Presidency: Lech Wałęsa and the Political Imaginary of Post–1989 Poland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCezar M. Ornatowski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Sources of National Pride—Ceremonial Rhetoric of Polish Presidents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAgnieszka Kampka and Ewa Modrzejewska\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Political Prudence in Times of Protest: The Rhetoric of Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSvilen Trifonov and Nadezhda Sotirova \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 President Zuzana Čaputová and Her Discourse Surrounding Contemporary Security Threats \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarta Natalia Lukacovic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Locating Lithuania in President Dalia Grybauskaitė’s Annual State of the Nation Addresses 2010–2014 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew C. Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Ceaușescu’s Cult of Personality and the Visual Rhetoric of the Presidential Portrait Adriana Cordali\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 From Archetypes to Prototypes, from Prototypes to Strategic Public Identity—Constructing the Persona of a Proper Political Leader \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGábor Pál\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: PRESIDENTIAL EXCHANGES \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Closing Statements as Rhetorical Subgenre in Pre-Election Debates in Poland and the United States \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Bendrat and Agnieszka Budzyńska-Daca\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Affordances and Constraints of Election Debate Formats　 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlena L. Vasilyeva\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Constructive Cooperation between \"Men of Good Will\": Richard Nixon’s 1969 Romanian Rhetoric and Press Reaction at Home and Abroad \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Frasca and Mary L. Kahl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Trump Addressing Warsaw and the Wider \"West\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca M. Townsend\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 \"Serving as an Example\": Democracy as a Key Symbol in Obama’s Presidential Speeches in Poland \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMenno H. Reijven\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 The Post-Cold War American Presidency and the Rhetorical Life of Vaìclav Havel Timothy Barney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Epilogue: Reflection Forward on President Zelenskyy and Ukraine \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAgnieszka Budzyńska-Daca, Anna Bendrat, Marta Natalia Lukacovic, Agnieszka Kampka, Adriana Cordali, Andrew C. Jones, and Rebecca M. Townsend\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039699665239,"sku":"9781433195235","price":30.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433195235.jpg?v=1750944526","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-the-cold-war-9781433195235","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}