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The Clinton Administration’s Foreign Policy Discourse and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

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The end of Chapter 4 offered an analysis of the general use of longstanding tropes within American exceptionalism in the construction of American identity and US foreign policies under the Clinton administration. This chapter analyzes the construction of the first post-Cold War US foreign policy discourse by an administration and the challenges this entailed. Keeping these issues in mind, this chapter narrows the focus of analysis, through the continued use of a discursive practices approach, to the Clinton administration’s foreign policy discourses surrounding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Oslo Peace Process.

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    Unless stated otherwise, all accessed at http://nssarchive.us on July 5, 2013.

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    Operative Principle is the principle according to which things are given meaning and simultaneously positioned vis-à-vis other things (Doty 1993:312).

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    From Ann Walker to Russell Horowitz,’Memorandum for Distribution, 1992 Clinton Campaign Promises and Administrative Actions Taken To Date’, May 24th 1996, The White House, Washington D.C. accessed at http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/assets/storage/Research%20-%20Digital%20Library/Reed-Subject/102/647386-campaign-promises.pdf on September 4th 2013.

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Kiely, K.P. (2017). The Clinton Administration’s Foreign Policy Discourse and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict. In: U.S. Foreign Policy Discourse and the Israel Lobby . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52986-8_5

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