The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Skidmore David
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.73
• Soggetto topico: Unilateral acts (International law); United States - Foreign relations - 1989-; United States --Foreign relations --1989-; Law, Politics & Government; International Relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; 1. The Unilateralist Turn in U.S. Foreign Policy; 2. The International and Domestic Sources of Unilateralism; 3. Structure and Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy: Clinton and BushCompared; 4. The United States and International Public Goods; 5. Reconfiguring the Terms of U.S. Engagement with InternationalInstitutions; 6. Barack Obama and the Unilateralist Temptation; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The pattern of multilateral engagement and unilateral retrenchment in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years presents a puzzle. What accounts for the unilateralist turn? Is it a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush administration? What then of the disengagement evident earlier during Clinton's presidency, or its continuation under Obama? Was the U.S. investment in multilateral institutions following World War II an anomaly? Or is the more recent retreat from international institutions the irregularity?<
• Titolo autorizzato: Unilateralist temptation in American foreign policy
• ISBN: 0-203-83972-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461332603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Foreign policy analysis (Routledge (Firm))