Obama's Foreign Policy: Ending the War on Terror

ISBN-13: 9781138591653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018

Michelle Bentley; Jack Holland

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Why is change so hard? Continuity in American foreign policy from Bush to Obama Jack Holland  1. Obama’s War on Terrorism in rhetoric and practice Trevor McCrisken  2. US decline and systemic constraint Adam Quinn  3. Structural shifts and strategic change: From the War on Terror to the pivot to Asia Nicholas Kitchen  4. A Constructivist-Institutionalist analysis of democracy promotion under Bush and Obama Oz Hassan  5. The War on Terror as hegemonic discourse: Institutionalisation, interests and the sedimentation of counterterrorism ideology Richard Jackson  6. Continuity we can believe in: Escaping the War on Terror Michelle Bentley  7. Affective investment in the War on Terror Ty Solomon  8. US nuclear weapons policy from Bush to Obama Andrew Futter  9. Drones and the issue of continuity in America’s Pakistan policy under Obama Wali Aslam  10. Interventionism in US foreign policy from Bush to Obama Mike Aaronson  11. Thinking about time in US foreign policy and its study Lee Jarvis  Conclusion: Conceptualising change and continuity in US foreign policy Jack Holland and Michelle Bentley