Obama and the World

This significantly revised, updated and extended second edition of New Directions in US Foreign Policy retains the strongest aspects of its original structure but adds a comprehensive account of the latest theoretical perspectives, the key actors and issues, and new policy directions. Offering a detailed and systematic outline of the field, this text:

• Explains how international relations theories such as realism, liberalism and constructivism can help us to interpret US foreign policy under President Obama
• Examines the key influential actors shaping foreign policy, from political parties and think tanks to religious groups and public opinion
• Explores the most important new policy directions under the Obama administration from the Arab Spring and the rise of China to African policy and multilateralism

• Supplies succinct presentation of relevant case material, and provides recommendations for further reading and web sources for pursuing future research.
  Written by a distinguished line-up of contributors actively engaged in original research on the topics covered, and featuring twelve brand new chapters, this text provides a unique platform for rigorous debate over the contentious issues that surround US foreign policy. This wide-ranging text is essential reading for all students and scholars of US foreign policy.

Autorentext

Inderjeet Parmar is Professor of International Politics, City University London, UK. Linda B. Miller is an Adjunct Professor of International Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and Professor of Political Science Emerita at Wellesley College, USA. Mark Ledwidge is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

Inhalt

Part 1 Theories; Chapter 1 Realism and US foreign policy, Adam Quinn; Chapter 2 Constructivism, US foreign policy, and counterterrorism, Richard Jackson, Matt McDonald; Chapter 3 Neoconservatism in the age of Obama, Robert Singh; Chapter 4 Obama, liberalism, and US foreign policy, Timothy J. Lynch; Chapter 5 Marxism and US foreign policy, Doug Stokes, David Maher; Chapter 6 Barack Obama, Mark Ledwidge; Chapter 7 Hegemonic transition and US foreign policy, Nick Kitchen; Part 2 Non-state actors; Chapter 8 Parties, polarization, and US foreign policy, Steven Hurst; Chapter 9 Changing minds, changing course, Donald E. Abelson; Chapter 10 Conservative evangelicals, the Tea Party, and US foreign policy, Lee Marsden; Chapter 11 American foreign policy during the Obama administration, James M. McCormick; Chapter 12 Corporate elite networks and US foreign policy, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Naná de Graaff; Part 3 New problems, paradigms, and policies; Chapter 13 The Obama administration's policy toward Africa, George Klay KiehJr; Chapter 14 The offensive turn, Trevor McCrisken, Mark Phythian; Chapter 15 Transatlantic relations and US foreign policy, David Hastings Dunn, Benjamin Zala; Chapter 16 The US 'pivot' to the Asia Pacific, Oliver Turner; Chapter 17 The United States and the Arab spring, Linda B. Miller; Chapter 18 Obama, Wikileaks, and American power, Inderjeet Parmar; Chapter 19 The United States and the UN, Craig N. Murphy; Part 4 A view from practitioners; Chapter 20 American power, patterns of rise and decline, Ketan Patel, Christian Hansmeyer; Chapter 21 Presidents' agenda, Ketan Patel, Christian Hansmeyer; afterword Afterword: Securing freedom, Andrew Hammond, Richard J. Aldrich;