In the aftermath of World War II, the creation of a bipolar world emerged as the Cold War burgeoned. Winston Churchill, the prime minister of England, delivered a seminal speech—originally called “The Sinews of Peace”—that deployed the trope of the Iron curtain which discursively framed the world and dyadic fashion. He delivered the speech on March 5, 1946 in Fulton, Missouri at Westminster College. In this speech, Churchill publically recognized the chasm that developed between the Soviet Union and the United States, two former Allied powers. The Soviet Union possessed far different goals and objectives than their Continue reading...