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

• Autore: Dueck Colin <1969->
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.73009/051
• Soggetto topico: World politics - 21st century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations 2009-
• Classificazione: POL040010POL015000
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Obama doctrine
• ISBN: 0-19-065994-7; 0-19-020263-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797071503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II