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This book considers the policy of the George W. Bush administration towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity and same-sex marriage. It suggests that, although accounts have often emphasised the ties between George W. Bush and the Christian right, the administration's strategy was, at least until early 2005, largely directed towards the courting of middle-ground opinion. The study offers a detailed and comprehensive survey of policy making; assesses the political significance of moral concerns; evaluates the role of the Christian Right; and throws new light on George W. Bush's years in office and the character of his thinking.
Conclusion The third American NWO – the Clinton and Bush presidencies, 1990–2006 Although it is now more than fifteen years since the end of the Cold War, we are far from having a definitive account to give of President George H. Bush (1988–1992) and his ‘New World Order’, proclaimed in a speech to the United Nations in 1990. In that speech Bush launched a third Americaninspired NWO, declaring that we were heading for ‘a world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle, a world in which nations respect the shared responsibility for freedom and
American Journal of Sociology, 102:3 (1996), pp. 734–6. 18 D. Meinert, ‘Partisan divisions grow in Congress’, The Springfield (IL) State Journal Register, 19 September 2004, www.la.utexas.edu/~seant/ springfield.doc. 19 G. C. Jacobson, The Bush Presidency and the American Electorate (prepared for delivery at the conference on ‘The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment’ at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 25–6 April 2003 (2003), p. 3. 20 CNN.com, ‘GOP builds on House majority: Republicans consolidate control they won in 1994’, CNN.com (3 November
election, with the subsequent Bush presidency being noted for a stalemate on climate policy. The success of AIT towards the end of the Bush presidency provided a window for reframing the US climate debate (Fletcher, 2009: 807). It also acted as a powerful rallying point for climate critics, An Inconvenient Truth 221 both in the mainstream media and the blogosphere, who were opposed to more stringent action on greenhouse gases. A struggle ensued over the film’s accuracy, and as AIT gained greater public visibility a counterpublic emerged that sought to destabilise the
against jihadist groups in Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Mali, the Philippines and elsewhere under the Bush presidency. Accordingly, many ( Jackson, 2012 ; Leffler, 2003 ; Miller, 2010 ; Winkler, 2007 ) have argued that the military-oriented counter-terrorism approach was the focus of the Bush administration’s global war on terror, though other approaches like the anti-terrorism legislation and enforcement marked by the PATRIOT Act of 2001 were simultaneously implemented by the Bush administration. Despite the material practices mentioned above, during the Bush presidency
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a certificate from the Academy of International Law at The Hague. He earned a Doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University and a Juris Doctorate degree from Columbia University. Armed with these impressive academic credentials, he joined the faculty of the prestigious College of William and Mary, Virginia. The Bush Presidency saw him involved in the active work of foreign policy formation and diplomacy, becoming Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State under Secretary of State
The election of Barack Obama was a milestone in US history with tremendous symbolic importance for the black community. But was this symbolism backed up by substance? Did ordinary black people really benefit under the first black president?
This is the question that Andra Gillespie sets out to answer in Race and the Obama Administration. Using a variety of methodological techniques—from content analysis of executive orders to comparisons of key indicators, such as homeownership and employment rates under Clinton, Bush, and Obama— the book charts the progress of black causes and provides valuable perspective on the limitations of presidential power in addressing issues of racial inequality. Gillespie uses public opinion data to investigate the purported disconnect between Obama’s performance and his consistently high ratings among black voters, asking how far the symbolic power of the first black family in the White House was able to compensate for the compromises of political office.
Scholarly but accessible, Race and the Obama Administration will be of interest to students and lecturers in US politics and race studies, as well as to general readers who want to better understand the situation of the black community in the US today and the prospects for its improvement.
in relative and structural power of the two countries. The telling point made by former Brazilian ambassador to Washington Rubens Barbosa ( 2011 : 182) is that disagreement with the US in trade talks was viewed as an obstructionist unwillingness to negotiate, which is more or less the charge that USTR Robert Zoellick ( 2003 ) levelled at Brazil after the 2003 Cancun WTO ministerial meeting concluded without closing the Doha development round talks. Unease with Brazilian failure to follow the US lead continued to grow during the Bush presidency, beginning with
legislators showing interest in parental choice and developing a voucher system, which has aroused much interest in Washington under the Bush Jnr presidency. • California led the way in developing building construction standards to help reduce energy costs and in setting out new emission regulations for cars to assist in combating air pollution • Vermont allows same-sex ‘civil unions’. It is early days to comment on developments in the George W Bush presidency. He labelled himself a ‘faithful friend of federalism’ on entering the White House, as might be expected from an ex
Christ: Resurrection (forthcoming), particularly in light of the intensifying partisanship of the current political climate globally, demonstrates the other side of the efforts to use biblical adaptations to capture the divisiveness we see around us. In fact, this partisanship can be illustrated through significant films on the political ‘left’. Several months after the release of The Passion of the Christ , Michael Moore released his unprecedented box-office smash hit Fahrenheit 9/11 ( 2004 ), which attempted to expose the corruption and ineptitude of the Bush