Bush II, Obama, and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere

ISBN-13: 9781138080850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str.

Thomas Andrew O'Keefe

Opis

O’Keefe presents a much needed reinterpretation of U.S.-American relations that utilizes all the international relations theories and conceptions of hegemony and applies them to events  associated with the presidencies of Bush II and Obama.

Spis treści

1. What is Hegemony and When Has the United States of America Been a Hegemon?  2. The Inter-American System Under the Aegis of United States Hegemony  3. A Post Hegemonic Inter-American System  4. The Emergence and Collapse of the Free Trade Area of the Americas  5. The Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas  6. China in Latin America and the Caribbean  7. The Record on Other Major United States Foreign Policy Initiatives in the Western Hemisphere under George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama  8. The Current State of Affairs and Future Ramifications

O autorze

Thomas Andrew O’Keefe has been the President of Mercosur Consulting Group, Ltd. since 1993 and currently teaches at Stanford University. A dual US-Chilean national, he has degrees from Columbia University, Villanova University’s School of Law, and the University of Oxford. The author of numerous books and articles on Latin America and the Caribbean, he chaired the Western Hemisphere Area Studies program at US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute between 2011 and 2016.