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To conclude the series of case studies about the various levels and elements of US foreign policy discourse, this chapter examines a case of this discourse being a direct response to the actions of actors outside of the United States. In this specific case, the Islamic State and its media strategy of terror prompted the response. In a dynamic similar to what the post-September 11 situation...

The overarching questions I bring to this inquiry are what foreign policy means during the Obama years and how foreign policy actions are made plausible in and through discourse. These questions frame this inquiry as ontological by extension: the ontology of discourse (which I do not elaborate as much as import and take over from my earlier work) spills over and influences the ontology of foreign...

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