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Book Synopsis Obama Does Globalistan by : Pepe Escobar
Download or read book Obama Does Globalistan written by Pepe Escobar and published by Nimble Books LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay is a companion to my own Globalistan, published in early 2007, which I defined as a warped geopolitical travel book. I argued then that in a context of re-medievalization - the world fragmented into "stans" - we are now living an intestinal war, an undeclared global civil war. Borrowing from Zygmunt Bauman's concept of liquid modernity, I called it Liquid War - and not only because of the global scramble for "black gold" oil and "blue gold" gas. Globalistan was essentially a long reportage crisscrossing the world. This text reflects the fact that I spent most of 2008 in the U.S. following the presidential campaign. As far as New Rome is concerned I'm usually outside looking in - the point of view of my dying profession, the foreign correspondent. In this text I'm most of the time inside looking out. Globalistan can be read as an on the ground - and underground - report on the Bush administration wasteland. This text could be something of a last chapter - out of the belly of the beast. 2009 is the Mother of all celebratory years. The 20 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The 30 years of the Iranian Islamic revolution. The 50 years of the Cuban revolution. The 60 years of NATO. The 70 years of World War II. The 80 years of the Great Depression. The 90 years of the Versailles Treaty. It's as if the world was turning on its gyre as in a psychedelic kaleidoscope reviving modern history in high-speed. And which figure comes out of the kaleidoscope, grinning his cool, calm and collected best to deal with a 1929-style crisis, the new Cold War or perhaps to conduct Versailles-style diplomacy? Barack Hussein Obama.
Download or read book The Global Obama written by Dinesh Sharma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Obama examines the president’s image in five continents and more than twenty countries. It is the first book to look at Barack Obama’s presidency and analyze how Obama and America are viewed by publics, governments, and political commentators around world. The author of Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President (Top 10 Black History Book) scaled the globe to gather opinions – cultural, historical, and political analyses – about Obama’s leadership style. Writers, journalists, psychologists, consultants, and social scientists present their views on Obama’s leadership, popularity, and many of the global challenges that still remain unresolved. As a progress report, this is the first book that tries to grasp ‘the Obama phenomenon’ in totality, as perceived by populations around the world with special focus on America’s leadership in the 21st Century.
Download or read book The Global Obama written by Dinesh Sharma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Obama examines the president’s image in five continents and more than twenty countries. It is the first book to look at Barack Obama’s presidency and analyze how Obama and America are viewed by publics, governments, and political commentators around world. The author of Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President (Top 10 Black History Book) scaled the globe to gather opinions – cultural, historical, and political analyses – about Obama’s leadership style. Writers, journalists, psychologists, consultants, and social scientists present their views on Obama’s leadership, popularity, and many of the global challenges that still remain unresolved. As a progress report, this is the first book that tries to grasp ‘the Obama phenomenon’ in totality, as perceived by populations around the world with special focus on America’s leadership in the 21st Century.
Download or read book After Obama written by Robert S. Singh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barack Obama's foreign policy has failed but the American strategic mind has not yet closed. In After Obama, Robert Singh examines how and why US influence has weakened and contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values. A well-intentioned but naive strategy of engagement has encouraged US adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran to assert themselves while allowing Western alliances to fray. But, challenging claims of an inevitable American decline, Singh argues that US leadership is a matter of will as much as wallet. Despite partisan polarization at home and the rise of the rest abroad, Washington can renew American leadership and, through a New American Internationalism, pave a path to the restoration of global order. Timely and provocative, the book offers a powerful critique of the Obama Doctrine and a call for strategic resolution in place of 'leading from behind'.
Book Synopsis Obama's Foreign Policy by : Michelle Bentley
Download or read book Obama's Foreign Policy written by Michelle Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is an innovative analysis of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, security and counter-terrorism policy, specifically within the context of ending the now infamous War on Terror. The book adopts a comparative approach, analysing change and continuity in US foreign policy during Obama’s first term in office vis-à-vis the foreign policy of the War on Terror, initiated by George W. Bush following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Despite being heralded as an agent of change, since his election in 2008 Obama has faced criticism that his foreign policy is effectively the same as what went before and that the War on Terror is still alive and well. Far from delivering wholesale change, Obama has been accused of replicating and even reinforcing the approach, language and policies that many anticipated he would reject. With contributions from a range of US foreign policy experts, this volume analyses the extent to which these criticisms of continuity are correct, identifying how the failure to end the War on Terror is manifest and explaining the reasons that have made enacting change in foreign policy so difficult. In addressing these issues, contributions to this volume will discuss continuity and change from a range of perspectives in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of US foreign policy, security studies and American politics.
Book Synopsis How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty by : John Bolton
Download or read book How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty written by John Bolton and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, American sovereignty is more challenged than ever before, not from enemies that threaten us militarily but from “friends” who urge us to share or reduce our sovereignty for larger global objectives. How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty reveals what sovereignty means to Americans, not as an abstraction but as a vibrant component of self government. Former Ambassador to the U.N. John R. Bolton looks at specific threats to U.S. sovereignty, from “global governance” to the White House, and recommends what Americans can do to defend their sovereignty and resist encroachments from the wide array of challenges we face, internationally and in our own domestic politics.
Book Synopsis Barack Obama's Post-American Foreign Policy by : Robert Singh
Download or read book Barack Obama's Post-American Foreign Policy written by Robert Singh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After one of the most controversial and divisive periods in the history of American foreign policy under President George W. Bush, the Obama administration was expected to make changes for the better in US relations with the wider world. Now, international problems confronting Obama appear more intractable, and there seems to be a marked continuity in policies between Obama and his predecessor. Robert Singh argues that Obama's approach of 'strategic engagement' was appropriate for a new era of constrained internationalism, but it has yielded modest results. Obama's search for the pragmatic middle has cost him political support at home and abroad, whilst failing to make decisive gains. Singh suggests by calibrating his foreign policies to the emergence of a 'post-American'world, the president has yet to preside over a renaissance of US global leadership. Ironically,Obama's policies have instead hastened the arrival of a post-American world.
Book Synopsis Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia by : Dinesh Sharma
Download or read book Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia written by Dinesh Sharma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama, this first interdisciplinary study of Obama's Indonesian and Hawai'ian years examines their effect on his adult character, political identity, and global world-view. The first 18 years of President Obama's life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai'i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for which the adult Obama is noted—his protean identity, his nuanced appreciation of multiple views of the same object, his cosmopolitan breadth of view, and his self-rooted "outpost" patriotism. Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President is the first study to examine, in fascinating detail, how his early years impacted this unique leader. Existing biographies of President Obama are primarily political treatments. Here, cross-cultural psychologist and marketing consultant Dinesh Sharma explores the connections between Obama's early upbringing and his adult views of civil society, secular Islam, and globalization. The book draws on the author's on-the-ground research and extensive first-hand interviews in Jakarta; Honolulu; New York; Washington, DC; and Chicago to evaluate the multicultural inputs to Obama's character and the ways in which they prepared him to meet the challenges of world leadership in the 21st century.
Book Synopsis Foreign Policy Speeches of Obama by : John Davis
Download or read book Foreign Policy Speeches of Obama written by John Davis and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama's dynamic oratory skills played a pivotal role in his historic electoral victory. Once in office those same proclivities were again on display during a host of major foreign policy speeches--those that endeavored to reformulate relations with the Muslim world, nuclear proliferation, the strategies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to name a few--that provide critical information for evaluating the president's policies. This volume provides an in-depth exploration of the president's major speeches and allows the reader to assess the extent to which Obama met the domestic and global expectations associated with his foreign policy agenda. Key features: - Students will find the selection of speeches thought provoking, particularly on the question of war. - Starting with Senator Obama's anti-Iraq War speech, readers will examine several speeches that evolved into the strategies for what critics charge is "Obama's War in Afghanistan." - Speeches from recent events are also included, such as the presidential address that unleashed American intervention in the Libyan civil war and Obama's triumphant address to nation in which he announced the death of Osama Bin Laden. Foreign Policy Speeches of Obama serves as an invaluable resource for U.S. Foreign Policy, American Government, International Relations, and Presidential Studies courses. Dr. John Davis is the director of international security studies at Trinity Washington University. His areas of expertise include: International Security, International Relations, International Law, U.S. Foreign Policy, Terrorism, Presidential Studies, and Black Politics.
Book Synopsis Barack Obama, the Audacity of Being a Global President by : Philip Ephraim
Download or read book Barack Obama, the Audacity of Being a Global President written by Philip Ephraim and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persuader-in-chief written by Nancy Snow and published by Nimble Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yes We Can" and "Yes We Did." McCain and Obama.Al Jazeera and Al Hurra. Frost and Nixon. Propaganda and persuasion. Orange juice and lemonade. Louis Armstrong and Edward R. Murrow. George Bush and those darn shoes. Huffington Post blogger and public diplomacy scholar Nancy Snow welcomes America and the world to the Age of Obama with this biting, funny, generous-minded look at the challenges President Obama will face as he communicates about America with the rest of the globe.
Book Synopsis Global Opinion of Obama Slips, International Policies Faulted by : Pew Global Attitudes Project
Download or read book Global Opinion of Obama Slips, International Policies Faulted written by Pew Global Attitudes Project and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global approval of President Barack Obama's policies has declined significantly since he first took office, while overall confidence in him and attitudes toward the U.S. have slipped modestly as a consequence.
Book Synopsis The World Views of the Obama Era by : Matthias Maass
Download or read book The World Views of the Obama Era written by Matthias Maass and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents selected non-US views of the Barack Obama administration. Each chapter investigates eight years of the Obama presidency from a different national perspective. By bringing together fourteen country studies from all regions of the world, this volume offers an accumulative global view of the Obama White House’s foreign policies and bilateral affairs. It provides an outside perspective on a presidency that was initially greeted with much enthusiasm world-wide, but seemed to fall out of favor over time in most countries. The overwhelming hope that was associated with the election of Obama in 2008 turned to disillusionment world-wide; the changes in US external affairs he promised were only partially fulfilled and the world was reminded that America’s place and role in the world would not change dramatically, not even under the inspirational Obama.
Book Synopsis Leading from Behind by : Herbert London
Download or read book Leading from Behind written by Herbert London and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight years of the Obama Administration represented a dramatic break from the bipartisan foreign policy consensus that had held since World War II: instead of the United States asserting leadership, confronting threats to global peace, and guaranteeing the security of our friends and allies, President Obama placed his faith in multilateralism, international institutions, and in the words of his own administration, "leading from behind" in global crises. The results are evident around the globe as war and chaos engulf Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; anti-democratic forces are resurgent; and Islamic terrorist organizations are emboldened in their efforts to establish a tyrannical Caliphate. In a series of columns and commentaries over the past several years, Herb London has provided an insightful and prescient critique of the Obama Administration's feckless, even dangerous, foreign policy. This volume collects those works, and combines them into a narrative that not only provides an important history of a president's failed policies but also shows the incredible challenges facing the United States-and the world-over the coming decade. Leading From Behind is an indispensable resource for students and observers of international affairs.
Book Synopsis America's Extended Hand by : Kristin M. Lord
Download or read book America's Extended Hand written by Kristin M. Lord and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engagement is a pillar and guiding principle of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. At the beginning of Obama's presidency, the United States faced a global public widely angry at America and distrustful of its motives. An unpopular war in Iraq and a controversial war on terror threatened America's moral authority overseas and divided even America's allies. Barack Obama pledged to renew America's relationship with the world, working in concert with other nations to address shared global challenges. But while his efforts enjoyed early success, improving foreign public opinions of America and raising hopes globally, the administration struggled to deliver on its promises. It raised expectations that the administration could not fulfill in the short term and is scrambling to fulfill in the longer term. This paper assesses the administration's global public engagement strategy and its implementation to date. Though the administration's commitment to engagement has encompassed a range of efforts such as negotiating with adversaries as well as allies, working through multilateral institutions, and a stronger commitment to diplomacy, this paper focuses on just one key dimension of the president's broader engagement strategy, which the authors term strategic public engagement and define as efforts to engage, inform and persuade foreign publics to advance U.S. national interests.
Book Synopsis The Global Game of Oil Pipelines by : Gulshan Dietl
Download or read book The Global Game of Oil Pipelines written by Gulshan Dietl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil has long been and will continue to be at the centre of the global economy. This book explores the oil trade, energy (geo)politics, and new trends in regionalising or globalising the oil industry in the new era of international relations and economic competition. Energy pipelines carrying oil and gas from the well-head to the market, generally run through two or more states; and often from one continent to the other. This book maps the oil flowing through international and intercontinental pipelines and unravels the political, commercial and technological considerations behind the mapping of oil routes and forging of trade ties between nation-states. Through case studies from the major oil-exporting regions like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, the USA, Canada and Russia, it analyses the changing trends in their policies around oil trade, bilateral relations, energy, and security. It also considers the environmental protests around the continued dependency on oil, the teapot refineries under the Islamic State, investments, oil lobbies and insurrections to understand the broad picture of shifting regional and geopolitical realities and the scramble for vital resources. This comprehensive book will be of interest to students of the geopolitics of energy, international relations, security and strategic studies, energy studies as well as the media and with policymakers.
Book Synopsis India and the Global Game of Gas Pipelines by : Gulshan Dietl
Download or read book India and the Global Game of Gas Pipelines written by Gulshan Dietl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Resource and routes -- 1 Natural gas: geology, geography and markets -- 2 Gas pipeline: commodity, container and carrier -- Part II The gas troika -- 3 Iran: gas pipelines under/after sanctions -- 4 Russia: an energy superpower? -- 5 Turkmenistan: pawn and player in the game of chess -- Part III The home truths -- 6 India: not a single transnational pipeline yet -- Conclusions: legacy, leads and lessons -- Bibliography -- Index
