American Grand Strategy Under Obama: Competing Discourses

ISBN-13: 9781474445733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Georg Lofflmann

Opis

Georg Lofflmann 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.

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.