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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812034103321

Autore

Dueck Colin <1969->

Titolo

The Obama doctrine : American grand strategy today / / Colin Dueck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-065994-7

0-19-020263-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Classificazione

POL040010POL015000

Disciplina

327.73009/051

Soggetti

World politics - 21st century

United States Foreign relations 2009-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Obama Doctrine; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Barack Obama and American Grand Strategy; Grand Strategies in the American Experience; Obama's Place in American Politics; Obama's Grand Strategy; 2 International Accommodation and Retrenchment; Obama's Incoming Strategy; Counterterrorism; Nuclear Weapons and Rogue States; Great Power Competitors; The Arab Spring; US Allies, Defense Spending, and Offshore Balancing; The Problem with the Obama Doctrine; 3 The Domestic Politics of the Obama Doctrine; Public Opinion; Party Politics; Electoral Politics

Congressional PoliticsPresidential Leadership; Looking Ahead to 2016; 4 Republican Alternatives to the Obama Doctrine; Conservative Anti-interventionists; Conservative Internationalists; Conservative Nationalists; Foreign Policy in the 2016 Elections; 5 Conservative American Realism; First Things First; Allies and Adversaries; Strategies of Pressure; Trade Policy; The Lessons of Iraq; Presidential Leadership; Notes; Bibliography; Index to Names of Authors in Notes; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

By mid-2015, the Obama presidency will be entering its final stages, and the race among the successors in both parties will be well underway. And while experts have already formed a provisional understanding of the Obama administration's foreign policy goals, the



shape of the ""Obama Doctrine"" is finally coming into full view. It has been consistently cautious since Obama was inaugurated in 2009, but recent events in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Far East have led an increasingly large number of foreign policy experts to conclude that caution has transformed into weakness. In The O