Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
Spring 3-22-2020
Journal / Book Title
Presidential Rhetoric on Terrorism under Bush, Obama and Trump
Abstract
Presidential rhetoric has minimally changed from the narrative set by George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. Bush’s policies and agenda have also largely remained. This chapter provides proposals for change given the empirical and theoretical findings made in the book. The counterterrorist policy agenda needs to be narrowed and made more precise. The public needs to educate itself about the terror threat to understand that it is not a significant risk when weighed against others. Presidents need to be more careful with what words they use when describing America’s terrorist adversaries and with who they call terrorists. Recalibrating the terror threat will be difficult as it will take the public changing how it views the world and the threats within it.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30167-5_5
Book Publisher
Palgrave Pivot, Cham
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
978-3-030-30167-5
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Rubin, Gabriel, "How Can Presidents Properly Calibrate the Terror Threat?" (2020). Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 139.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/justice-studies-facpubs/139
Published Citation
Rubin, Gabriel. "How Can Presidents Properly Calibrate the Terror Threat?." In Presidential Rhetoric on Terrorism under Bush, Obama and Trump, pp. 129-140. Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2020. Harvard
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