1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460386703321

Autore

Armacost Michael H.

Titolo

Ballots, bullets, and bargains : American foreign policy and presidential elections / / Michael H. Armacost

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-231-53913-4

Edizione

[Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

324.973

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - History

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

United States Foreign relations 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Elections, Parties, and Politics -- 2. Quest for the Nomination: Appealing to the Base -- 3. Campaigns: Opportunities and Challenges for Incumbents -- 4. Campaigns: Opportunities and Obstacles for Challengers -- 5. Presidential Transitions -- 6. Launching a Presidential Term -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on twenty-four years of experience in government, Michael H. Armacost explores how the contours of the U.S. presidential election system influence the content and conduct of American foreign policy. He examines how the nomination battle impels candidates to express deference to the foreign policy DNA of their party and may force an incumbent to make wholesale policy adjustments to fend off an intra-party challenge for the nomination. He describes the way reelection campaigns can prod a chief executive to fix long-neglected problems, kick intractable policy dilemmas down the road, settle for modest course corrections, or scapegoat others for policies gone awry. Armacost begins his book with the quest for the presidential nomination and then moves through the general election campaign, the ten-week transition period between Election Day and Inauguration Day,



and the early months of a new administration. He notes that campaigns rarely illuminate the tough foreign policy choices that the leader of the nation must make, and he offers rare insight into the challenge of aligning the roles of an outgoing incumbent (who performs official duties despite ebbing power) and the incoming successor (who has no official role but possesses a fresh political mandate). He pays particular attention to the pressure for new presidents to act boldly abroad in the early months of his tenure, even before a national security team is in place, decision-making procedures are set, or policy priorities are firmly established. He concludes with an appraisal of the virtues and liabilities of the system, including suggestions for modestly adjusting some of its features while preserving its distinct character.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828966003321

Autore

Green Michael J.

Titolo

By more than providence : grand strategy and American power in the Asia Pacific since 1783 / / Michael J. Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-231-54272-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (760 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations

Disciplina

327.7305

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy

United States Foreign relations Pacific Area

Pacific Area Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Tuesday Morning in September -- 2. Fresh Kills -- 3. Identifying the Dead -- 4. Master Plan -- 5. Memorial -- 6. Remaking the Memorial -- 7. New Finds -- 8. Who Owns the Dead? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Soon after the American Revolution, the United States began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and its vast



material and cultural resources. Many asked whether the United States should partner with China, which operates at the center of Asia, or Japan, which is located in the middle of the Pacific. Where should the United States draw its defensive line, and how should it export democratic principles? In a history that spans the eighteenth century to the present, Michael J. Green follows the development of U.S. policy toward East Asia, identifying recurring themes in American statecraft that reflect the nation's political philosophy and material realities. Drawing on archives, interviews, and his own experience in the Pentagon and White House, Green finds one overarching concern driving U.S. policy toward East Asia: a fear felt by Americans that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the United States and prevent the ocean from becoming a conduit for the westward free flow of trade, values, and forward defense. By More Than Providence works through these problems from the perspective of history's major strategists and statesmen, from Thomas Jefferson to Alfred Thayer Mahan and Henry Kissinger. It records the fate of their ideas as they collided with the realities of the Far East and adds clarity to America's stakes in the region, especially when compared with those of Europe and the Middle East.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828549703321

Titolo

Civil war? interstate war? hybrid war? : dimensions and interpretations of the donbas conflict in 2014-2020

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany, : Ibidem Verlag, [2021]

ISBN

3-8382-7383-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Classificazione

355.48

Disciplina

303.64

Soggetti

Civil war

Borgerkrig

Hybridkrig

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia