Algeria’s economic crisis parallels and is an intrinsic part of its political crisis over the past decade. It consists, furthermore, of an interrelated crisis over control of the economic rent and the activities of an informal parallel economy originally based on smuggling and now sustained through violence which is legitimised by Islamist rhetoric. Economic reform, therefore, cannot be meaning...

Changes in health care policy, either proposed or enacted, often bring about heightened rhetoric and polarizing characterizations. Regardless of the potential availability of data to help guide policy deliberations, decisions regarding our health care system are almost always ultimately political. Such decisions often revolve around the philosophical debate regarding the appropriate role of gov...

This study was to find out about the rhetorical appeals and prominent forms of persuasions in Ivanka Trump's political speech. The source data this are texts (both written spoken) related Trump’s 2020 RNC verbal speech, gestures, vocal delivery, facial expression (from video) as well words, phrases, sentences transcript). In study, writer used a qualitative content analysis approach. theories a...

The Nonproliferation Review/Winter 1998 20 Alexandra von Meier, who received her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley in 1995, is an Associate Specialist at the Center for Nuclear and Toxic Waste Management. Jennifer Miller is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Rhetoric, and Ann Keller is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science, all at the University of Ca...