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Download or read book The Obama Doctrine written by Colin Dueck and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An incisive evaluation of foreign policy and the meaning of power in the Obama era"--
Book Synopsis The Obama Doctrine in the Americas by : Hanna S. Kassab
Download or read book The Obama Doctrine in the Americas written by Hanna S. Kassab and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes Obama’s foreign policy in the Americas, focusing on major security-related issues such as drug trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism. This book is meant not only for academics and students but also for policy analysts.
Book Synopsis The Obama Doctrine by : Michelle Bentley
Download or read book The Obama Doctrine written by Michelle Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Obama’s first term in office was subject to intense criticism; not only did many feel that he had failed to live up to his leadership potential, but that he had actually continued the foreign policy framework of the George W. Bush era he was supposed to have abandoned. This edited volume examines whether these issues of continuity have been equally as prevalent during the president’s second term as his first. Is Obama still acting within the foreign policy shadow of Bush, or has he been able to establish his own approach towards international affairs, distinct from his predecessor? Within this context, the volume also addresses the idea of legacy and whether Obama has succeeded in establishing his own distinct foreign policy doctrine. In addressing these questions, the chapters explore continuity and change from a range of perspectives in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis, which are broadly representative of a spectrum of theoretical positions. With contributions from a range of US foreign policy experts, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of US foreign policy, Foreign Policy Analysis and American politics.
Book Synopsis US Presidential Doctrines Handbook - Volume 1 President Barack Obama Doctrine - Strategic Information and Materials by : IBP, Inc.
Download or read book US Presidential Doctrines Handbook - Volume 1 President Barack Obama Doctrine - Strategic Information and Materials written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US Presidential Doctrines Handbook - Reagan, Carder, Clinton, Bush, Obama
Book Synopsis Dangerous Doctrine by : Robert G. Kaufman
Download or read book Dangerous Doctrine written by Robert G. Kaufman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, President Barack Obama came to office as a politician who emphasized conviction rather than consensus. During his 2008 presidential campaign, he pledged to transform the role of the United States abroad. His ambitious foreign policy goals included a global climate treaty, the peaceful withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and a new relationship with Iran. Throughout Obama's tenure, pundits and scholars have offered competing interpretations of his "grand strategy," while others have maintained that his policies were incoherent or, at best, ad hoc. In Dangerous Doctrine, political scientist Robert G. Kaufman argues that the forty-fourth president has indeed articulated a clear, consistent national security policy and has pursued it with remarkable fidelity. Yet Kaufman contends that President Obama has imprudently abandoned the muscular internationalism that has marked US foreign policy since the end of World War II. Drawing on international relations theory and American diplomatic history, Kaufman presents a robust critique of the Obama doctrine as he situates the president's use of power within the traditions of American strategic practice. Focusing on the pivotal regions of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, this provocative study demonstrates how current executive branch leadership threatens America's role as a superpower, weakening its ability to spread democracy and counter threats to geopolitical order in increasingly unstable times. Kaufman proposes a return to the grand strategy of moral democratic realism, as practiced by presidents such as Harry S. Truman, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, with the hope of reestablishing the United States as the world's dominant power.
Book Synopsis National Security in the Obama Administration by : Stanley A. Renshon
Download or read book National Security in the Obama Administration written by Stanley A. Renshon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bush Doctrine is dead! At least that’s what critics hope. But while new U.S. national security challenges emerge, many post-9/11 threats still persist and the policies of George W. Bush offer one set of strategic answers for how President Obama can confront those dangers. Neither a polemic nor a whitewash, this book provides a careful analysis of the Bush Doctrine—its development, application, and rationale—and assesses its legacy: How will Obama respond to the many foreign policy challenges that await him? Through an examination of psychology as much as policy, Renshon gives us the first comparative analysis of the Bush Doctrine and the developing Obama Doctrine. The book analyzes the range of national security issues Obama will face and the political divisions that permeate U.S. national security debates. It is essential reading for anyone looking to understand how presidents assess security risks generally and how Obama specifically is likely to adapt the Bush Doctrine to his own worldview.
Book Synopsis Hope, Change, Pragmatism by : Jacob Shively
Download or read book Hope, Change, Pragmatism written by Jacob Shively and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to uncover a clear picture of Barack Obama’s grand strategy, the overarching methods applied to identify and achieve national interests in a global setting. Pressed for an “Obama doctrine” during his final years in office, the President claimed a simple international relations approach: applying all tools at his disposal before resorting for military force. Critics, however, remain unimpressed. They charge the administration with strategic incoherence and weak leadership. Stepping away from ideological and theoretical commitments, Shively applies a simple framework for grand strategy, one that also deepens our systematic understanding. After untangling a complex history and narrating three cases of tumult in 2009, 2011, and 2014, Shively characterizes Obama’s grand strategy as “pragmatic internationalism” and argues that it was a promising but poorly implemented approach.
Book Synopsis The Arab Spring by : Edward A. Lynch
Download or read book The Arab Spring written by Edward A. Lynch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a succinct, readable, and comprehensive treatment of how the Obama administration reacted to what was arguably the most difficult foreign policy challenge of its eight years in office: the Arab Spring. As a prelude to examining how the United States reacted to the first wave of the Arab Spring in the 21st century, this book begins with an examination of how the U.S. reacted to revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries and a summary of how foreign policy is made. Each revolution in the Arab Spring (in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen) and the Obama administration's action—or inaction—in response is carefully analyzed. The U.S.' role is compared to that of regional powers, such as Turkey, Israel, and Iran. The impact of U.S. abdication in the face of pivotal events in the region is the subject of the book's conclusion. While other treatments have addressed how the Arab Spring revolutions have affected the individual countries where these revolutions took place, U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and President Barack Obama's overall foreign policy, this is the only work that provides a comprehensive examination of both the Arab Spring revolutions themselves and the reaction of the U.S. government to those revolutions.
Download or read book After Obama written by Robert 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: After Obama examines how and why US influence has contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values. As a relatively short book, it would be attractive for advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on US foreign policy, international relations, foreign policy analysis, and history/diplomatic history.
Download or read book Obama's America written by Carl Pedersen and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2008 will be remembered as the moment when the US elected its first African American president. This revealing book seeks to place the extraordinary rise of Barack Obama within the larger context of a possible historic political realignment in the US and of limits to US power in the world.For 2008 also offered a number of history lessons that will surely inform studies of the election and its aftermath. Carl Pedersen's book is an attempt to engage with these history lessons. It examines the demographic changes that will likely change the nature of American national identity. And it assesses the extent to which the grassroots organizations that were crucial in winning the election for Obama may influence the way he will govern the nation. Obama's America also attempts to map out the contours of an Obama Doctrine in foreign policy by looking at how his identity has shaped his views on the role of the US in the world and how he, in turn, has been influenced by his foreign policy advisers. It examines the challenges Obama faces in confronting a post-American world in which the US is no longer the sole superpower. Will Obama be a transformative president?
Download or read book The Obama Doctrine written by Colin Dueck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Obama Doctrine, Colin Dueck analyzes and explains what the Obama Doctrine in foreign policy actually is, and maps out the competing visions on offer from the Republican Party. Dueck, a leading scholar of US foreign policy, contends it is now becoming clear that Obama's policy of international retrenchment is in large part a function of his emphasis on achieving domestic policy goals. There have been some successes in the approach, but there have also been costs. For instance, much of the world no longer trusts the US to exert its will in international politics, and America's adversaries overseas have asserted themselves with increasing frequency. The Republican Party will target these perceived weaknesses in the 2016 presidential campaign and develop competing counter-doctrines in the process. Dueck explains that within the Republican Party, there are two basic impulses vying with each other: neo-isolationism and forceful internationalism. Dueck subdivides each impulse into the specific agenda of the various factions within the party: Tea Party nationalism, neoconservatism, conservative internationalism, and neo-isolationism. He favors a realistic but forceful US internationalism, and sees the willingness to disengage from the world by some elements of the party as dangerous. After dissecting the various strands, he articulates an agenda of forward-leaning American realism--that is, a policy in which the US engages with the world and is willing to use threats of force for realist ends. The Obama Doctrine not only provides a sharp appraisal of foreign policy in the Obama era; it lays out an alternative approach to marshaling American power that will help shape the foreign policy debate in the run-up to the 2016 elections.
Book Synopsis The Obama Doctrine by : Michelle Bentley
Download or read book The Obama Doctrine written by Michelle Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Obama’s first term in office was subject to intense criticism; not only did many feel that he had failed to live up to his leadership potential, but that he had actually continued the foreign policy framework of the George W. Bush era he was supposed to have abandoned. This edited volume examines whether these issues of continuity have been equally as prevalent during the president’s second term as his first. Is Obama still acting within the foreign policy shadow of Bush, or has he been able to establish his own approach towards international affairs, distinct from his predecessor? Within this context, the volume also addresses the idea of legacy and whether Obama has succeeded in establishing his own distinct foreign policy doctrine. In addressing these questions, the chapters explore continuity and change from a range of perspectives in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis, which are broadly representative of a spectrum of theoretical positions. With contributions from a range of US foreign policy experts, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of US foreign policy, Foreign Policy Analysis and American politics.
Book Synopsis American Grand Strategy under Obama by : Lofflmann Georg Lofflmann
Download or read book American Grand Strategy under Obama written by Lofflmann Georg Lofflmann and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how rivalling discourses of American grand strategy reveal a fractured consensus of geopolitical identity and national security under President Obama. This conflict manifested in divergent elite visions of liberal hegemony, cooperative engagement and unilateral restraint. Georg Lfflmann examines the identity conflict within the Washington foreign policy establishment, between elite insiders and outsiders, and how the 'Obama Doctrine' both confirmed a geopolitical vision of American exceptionalism and challenged established notions of US hegemony and world leadership.
Book Synopsis Dangerous Doctrine by : Robert Gordon Kaufman
Download or read book Dangerous Doctrine written by Robert Gordon Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political scientist Robert G. Kaufman argues that Barack Obama has articulated a clear, consistent national security policy and has pursued it with remarkable fidelity. Yet Kaufman contends that President Obama has imprudently abandoned the muscular internationalism that has marked US foreign policy since the end of World War II.
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 The Multinational Takedown of America by : Gary R. Patterson
Download or read book The Multinational Takedown of America written by Gary R. Patterson and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As President, Barack Obama has conducted U.S. foreign policy by exclusively adopting the dictates and direction of the United Nations worldview of Multi-National global governance - however, to the detriment of optimally advancing and protecting the best National Security interests of the American People. Specifically, there exists a stark divergence between the competing geo-political philosophies of 1) the United States as the dominant player in world affairs and "an indispensable force for good" (i.e. American Exceptionalism) which President Barack Obama rejects, in favor of 2) Obama's demonstrated preference for the U.N. Multi-National (co-equal nations) worldview of global governance (i.e. The Obama Doctrine of "Leading from Behind"). By consciously shunning the decades-old dominance of the United States as the world's leading nation in geo-political influence, President Obama's actions have served to diminish ("taken down") the stature of the future role of the United States in world affairs. Indeed, in promoting a diminished role for America in world affairs, Barack Obama is consciously serving the cause of, conversely, 1) raising the prominence of the United Nations as the true heir to, what the world body believes, is its rightful and exclusive priority role in dominating global governance in the 21st Century while correspondingly, 2) raising the stature and influence of its next U.N. Secretary-General in particular. Second, in his conduct of U.S. foreign policy - by mirroring the agenda of the U.N. Multi-National model of global governance - Barack Obama has optimally laid the groundwork as a prelude in his desire to become the next U.N. Secretary-General after leaving the White House in 2017. However, President Obama cannot escape that, from the outset, he had a moral obligation to have disclosed to the American People 1) his intent to conduct U.S. foreign policy exclusively through the prism and dictates of United Nations dogma and 2) any ancillary ambition he may have to become the next U.N. Secretary-General - precisely because the voting electorate had the right to know. The American electorate could then have decided if the decision-making process of Barack Obama, as President of the United States, had also conflicted with or been primarily driven by any quest by Barack Obama to, one day, become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. In his signature style, Gary R. Patterson meticulously and compellingly scrutinizes Barack Obama's major foreign policy decisions and events that have occurred during his Presidency specifically to the words, speeches and U.N. policy statements of both the current and former Secretaries-General of the United Nations over the past to two decades, Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan. Patterson's analysis convincingly suggests a concerted effort by President Obama, in his conduct of U.S. foreign policy, to both emulate and implement the dictates and global governance policies of the United Nations. Although, many times those decisions appear to be contradictory and at cross-purposes with Barack Obama's principal responsibility to - as President of the United States - serve the best National Security interests of the American People. The Multi-National Takedown of America - As A Prelude to Barack Obama's Desire to Become the Next Secretary-General of the United Nations is Gary R. Patterson's fifth book in the last seven years - all of which critique the Presidency of Barack Obama.
Download or read book The Long Game written by Derek Chollet and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes how President Obama has changed and improved the course of American foreign policy through the way he approached difficult global challenges including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, turbulence in Syria and the rise of ISIS, "--NoveList.
