American Grand Strategy Under Obama: Competing Discourses

ISBN-13: 9781474419765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Georg Lofflmann

Opis

This book explores how the position of the United States was defined under the Obama presidency and how the conduct of U.S. foreign and security policy between 2009 and 2014 both confirmed and contested a geopolitical vision of world leadership and American exceptionalism that dominates in popular culture, expert research and political rhetoric.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Illustrations; 1. Introduction; 2. Reimagining grand strategy; 3. Filming hegemony: Hollywood and the Manichean script of geopolitics; 4. Competing visions for America on the New York Times best sellers list; 5. The American grand strategy debate in International Relations; 6. Think tanks and the Washington consensus on hegemony; 7. Strategic vision: National security and the geopolitics of military pre-eminence; 8. The ‘Obama Doctrine’ – Vision for Change?; 9. Conclusion; 10. List of abbreviations; 11. Appendix; 12. Bibliography.