Beyond the Cold War: Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe (Paperback)

1 Introduction: Centering Conversations on Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe

Rebecca M. Townsend

2 Reinventing the Polish Presidency: Lech Wał?sa and the Political Imaginary of Post?1989 Poland

Cezar M. Ornatowski

3 Sources of National Pride?Ceremonial Rhetoric of Polish Presidents

Agnieszka Kampka and Ewa Modrzejewska

4 Political Prudence in Times of Protest: The Rhetoric of Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev

Svilen Trifonov and Nadezhda Sotirova

5 President Zuzana ?aputova and Her Discourse Surrounding Contemporary Security Threats

Marta Natalia Lukacovic

6 Locating Lithuania in President Dalia Grybauskait?’s Annual State of the Nation Addresses 2010?2014

Andrew C. Jones

7 Ceau?escu’s Cult of Personality and the Visual Rhetoric of the Presidential Portrait Adriana Cordali

8 From Archetypes to Prototypes, from Prototypes to Strategic Public Identity?Constructing the Persona of a Proper Political Leader

Gabor Pal

PART II CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: PRESIDENTIAL EXCHANGES

9 Closing Statements as Rhetorical Subgenre in Pre-Election Debates in Poland and the United States

Anna Bendrat and Agnieszka Budzy?ska-Daca

10 Affordances and Constraints of Election Debate Formats　

Alena L. Vasilyeva

11 Constructive Cooperation between "Men of Good Will": Richard Nixon’s 1969 Romanian Rhetoric and Press Reaction at Home and Abroad

Ralph Frasca and Mary L. Kahl

12 Trump Addressing Warsaw and the Wider "West"

Rebecca M. Townsend

13 "Serving as an Example": Democracy as a Key Symbol in Obama’s Presidential Speeches in Poland

Menno H. Reijven

14 The Post-Cold War American Presidency and the Rhetorical Life of Vaiclav Havel Timothy Barney

15 Epilogue: Reflection Forward on President Zelenskyy and Ukraine

Agnieszka Budzy?ska-Daca, Anna Bendrat, Marta Natalia Lukacovic, Agnieszka Kampka, Adriana Cordali, Andrew C. Jones, and Rebecca M. Townsend