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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163005203321

Autore

Henriksen Thomas H

Titolo

Cycles in US Foreign Policy since the Cold War / / by Thomas H. Henriksen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319486406

3319486403

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 332 p.)

Collana

American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, , 2945-686X

Disciplina

320.973

Soggetti

America - Politics and government

International relations

World politics

Peace

Politics and war

American Politics

Foreign Policy

Political History

Peace and Conflict Studies

Military and Defence Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- George Herbert Walker Bush: A Disorderly World Put Right -- George H.W. Bush: Interventionism Unbound -- William Jefferson Clinton: The Post-Cold War's Inward Look -- Bill Clinton and Two Reluctant Interventions into the Balkans -- George Walker Bush and the International Outreach -- George W. Bush's Overstretch Abroad -- Barack Hussein Obama and the New Retrenchment -- Barack Obama: A Foreign Policy of Disengagement  -- Observations on the Cycles in U.S. Foreign Policy. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes how American international policy alternates between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs. These cycles provide a unique way to understand, assess, and describe



fluctuations in America's involvement or non-involvement overseas. In addition to its basic thesis, the book presents a fair-minded account of four presidents' foreign policies in the post-Cold War period: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. It suggests recurring sources of cyclical change, along with implications for the future. An engaged or involved foreign policy entails the use of military power and diplomatic pressure against other powers to secure American ends. A disengaged or noninvolved policy relies on normal economic and political interaction with other states, which seeks to disassociate from entanglements.