Most books about presidential rhetoric focus on the United States. Few American communication scholars concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe. Media pundits and scholars alike framed this region as a place used for the United States' or Russia's Cold War ends-even after the Cold War ended. Beyond the Cold War: Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe brings scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and the United States together to study presidential rhetoric to make a compelling case for treating the leaders of the region with their own agency, rather than as agents of others.

List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Rebecca M. Townsend: Introduction: Centering Conversations on Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe - Cezar M. Ornatowski: Reinventing the Polish Presidency: Lech Walesa and the Political Imaginary of Post-1989 Poland - Agnieszka Kampka/Ewa Modrzejewska: Sources of National Pride: Ceremonial Rhetoric of Polish Presidents - Svilen V. Trifonov/Nadezhda Sotirova: Political Prudence in Times of Protest: The Rhetoric of Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev - Marta Natalia Lukacovic: President Zuzana Caputová and Her Discourse Surrounding Contemporary Security Threats - Andrew C. Jones: Locating Lithuania in President Dalia Grybauskaite's Annual State of the Nation Addresses 2010-2014 - Adriana Cordali: Ceaus,escu's Cult of Personality and the Visual Rhetoric of the Presidential Portrait - Gábor Pál: From Archetypes to Prototypes, from Prototypes to Strategic Public Identity: Constructing the Persona of a Proper Political Leader - Anna Bendrat/Agnieszka Budzynska-Daca: Closing Statements as Rhetorical Subgenre in Pre-election Debates in Poland and the United States - Alena L. Vasilyeva: Affordances and Constraints of Election Debate Formats - Ralph Frasca/Mary L. Kahl: Constructive Cooperation between "Men of Good Will": Richard Nixon's 1969 Romanian Rhetoric and Press Reaction at Home and Abroad - Rebecca M. Townsend: Trump Addressing Warsaw and the Wider "West" - Menno H. Reijven: "Serving as an Example": Democracy as a Key Symbol in Obama's Presidential Speeches in Poland - Timothy Barney: The Post-Cold War American Presidency and the Rhetorical Life of Václav Havel - Agnieszka Budzynska-Daca/Anna Bendrat/Marta Natalia Lukacovic, Agnieszka Kampka/Adriana Cordali/Andrew C. Jones/Rebecca M. Townsend: Epilogue: A Reflection Forward on President Zelenskyy and Ukraine - Notes on Contributors - Index.