This book presents an overview of the main changes in the United States' foreign policy in response to the transformations in the international order in the last decades. If, after the end of the Cold War, the USA invested in the universalization of market economy and in the strengthening of its military supremacy, new developments demanded reorientations in the country's foreign strategy. The controversial military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2008 economic crisis, the rise of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the rise of right-wing populism altered the global political landscape and demanded new responses from the most powerful country in the world.

This volume brings together nine essays in which the founding member of the World International Studies Committee, Sebastião C. Velasco e Cruz, analyzes how the United States' foreign policy responded to the growing challenges posed by this changing international order, discussing topics such as:

• The evolution of the American geopolitical strategy after the end of the Cold War
• How US foreign policy reacted to challenges to security and dilemmas of the international order
• Barack Obama's foreign policy and world politics
• Donald Trump and the rise of populism in the USA
• US relations with the BRICs and Latin America

The United States in a Troubled World: Essays on Interpretation will be of interest to international relations and political science researchers both within and outside the United States.

Autorentext

Sebastião C. Velasco e Cruz is a full professor in the Department of Political Science at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil; a professor in the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program in International Relations (UNESP/UNICAMP/PUC-SP); and a founding member of the World International Studies Committee and the Brazilian Association of International Relations. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and the title of Docteur d'État from the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, France. He was President of the Center for the Study of Contemporary Culture (CEDEC), Brazil; Coordinator of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Studies on the United States (INCT-INEU), Brazil; and member of the Scientific Committee of the Vilmar Faria Chair of Latin American Studies, of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and a visiting professor at the University of Paris X - Nanterre and the University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne.

Inhalt

1. A Problem of Method. The United States Grand Strategy: Debate, Policies, Implications for Brazil.- 2. Between Norms and Facts: Challenges to Security and Dilemmas of the International Order.- 3. After the Cold War: Geopolitical Evolution, Scenarios and Prospects.- 4. The United States in India's Mirror: Reflections on the Development Strategies and Foreign Relations of an Ascending Country.- 5. A New Course? Obama's Choices and World Politics.- 6. The Tragedy of Diplomacy and Obama's Foreign Policy.- 7. The Presence of Tradition: Populism in the USA.- 8. A House Divided: Donald Trump and the Transformation of American Politics.- 9. International Order? Interamerican Relations and Political Outlook for Latin America.