An Analysis Of Obama's Speech When Speaking About Foreign Policy?

There has been no specific empirical study of the rhetoric of Obama’s speeches when speaking about foreign policy or the military intervention in Libya. The purpose for this proposal is to address whether the U.S. invasion of Libya under the Obama administration have the same ideological justifications as did the Bush Administration in going into Iraq and Afghanistan. This addresses both the lack of empirical evidence in the field of U.S. foreign policy and the weakness in the sampling strategy of previous studies such as Santos and Teixeira’s that Libya is a relatively newer state of U.S. military intervention. This is consistent with the exploratory purpose of this study that is to analyze a president’s speeches the same way Santos and Teixeira
Some weaknesses of the study were not really taking into consideration during their analyses of the speeches that the nature of each invasion was different and so were the tensions that came with it. Since they did not include these external factors from their data collection strategy, their empirical data does not fully encompass the justifications for military intervention that the research question proposed is looking for. There is also a weakness in their sampling strategy due to the fact that they have been limited to a particular historical context; one context is not necessarily comparable to another. Flick writes in “Introduction to Research Methodology” about how to properly create a research design and what factors to watch out for that may disrupt your study. He discusses population generalizability, which would be analyzing President Obama’s speeches on foreign policy in Libya and making assumptions about those that would reflect all of his presidential speeches. In Chapter 7 of “Introduction to Research Methodology” Flick mentions that in studies such as the one proposed here, there is a transferability issue that Santos and Teixeira discuss briefly in their study; it’s where one president’s foreign policy speeches are analyzed and applied to other presidents and their speeches. These design flaws come with issues of validity and generalizability when it comes to prior research. When it comes to research designs, the focus will be on the evaluation of results; the internal validity characterizes how far the results of this study can be analyzed