The World Views of the Obama Era: From Hope to Disillusionment

ISBN-13: 9783319610757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 347 str.

Matthias Maass

Opis

This book presents selected non-US views of the Barack Obama administration. the changes in US external affairs he promised were only partially fulfilled and the world was reminded that America's place and role in the world would not change dramatically, not even under the inspirational Obama.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: From Obamania to Disillusionment

Matthias Maass, Yonsei University, Korea

2. Indirect Dialogues: Brazilian Perceptions of the Barack Obama Administration (2009-2016)

Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama, Federal University of Tocantins, Brazil

3. The American “Pivot to Asia” vs. the “Rise of China:” The Chinese view of America during the Obama era

Gaye Christoffersen, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, China

4. Obama and a Historic Turn in Cuban–American relations

Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, Florida International University, USA

5. Egypt and Obama: Turbulent Times, Bumpy Relations

Nael Shama, Independent Scholar and Author, Egypt

6. Obamania Eight Years Later

Ruchi Anand, American Graduate School, Paris, France

7. From Visionary to Pragmatist: The Return of Normalcy to US-German relations, 2009-2017

Steven Ney, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

8. India’s Perceptions of the Barack Obama Era: Obama Legacy and the US-India Relations

Shivaji Kumar, Mershon Center for International Security, The Ohio State University, USA

9. Not Quite At Home: Obama in Indonesian Eyes

Prashanth Parameswaran, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA

10. Iranian views of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan, Central Washington University, USA

11. World Views of the Obama Era: Israel

Ronnie Oloesker, St. Lawrence University, USA

12. South Korea

Mason Richey, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea

13. Mexican Public Opinion on Barack Obama

Gerardo De Jesus Maldonado Hernandez, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico

14. Views from the Hegemon in West Africa on the Obama Administration

Casandra Veney, United States International University-Africa, Kenya

15. Obama and the U.S.-Pakistan Marriage of Convenience

Christopher Clary, University of Albany (SUNY), USA, and Niloufer Siddiqui, Yale University, USA

16. Russian view on the Obama’s presidency: Real Politics and Popular Geopolitics

Ivan Kurilla, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia, and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia

17. Turkish Elite Perceptions of Turkey-US Relations under Obama’s Administration: From Strategic Partnership to Estrangement

Muge Kinagioglu, Hacettepe University, Turkey

18. Conclusion: Disillusion, Disappointment, Disrespect: The Failure of Obama’s ‘International’ Presidency

Matthias Maass, Yonsei University, Korea

19. Bibliography

O autorze

Matthias Maass is Associate Professor of International Relations at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul/Korea. He is the author of a monograph on small state survival, and editor of multi-author volumes. He has published in a variety of academic journals worldwide. His current research foci are, in addition to the US and its external affairs, the small state and Northeast Asian security.

Blurb

This book presents selected non-US views of the Barack Obama administration. Each chapter investigates eight years of the Obama presidency from a different national perspective. By bringing together fourteen  country studies from all regions of the world, this volume offers an accumulative global view of the Obama White House’s foreign policies and bilateral affairs. . It provides an outside perspective on a presidency that was initially greeted with much enthusiasm world-wide, but seemed to fall out of favor over time in most countries. The overwhelming hope that was associated with the election of Obama in 2008 turned to disillusionment world-wide; the changes in US external affairs he promised were only partially fulfilled and the world was reminded that America’s place and role in the world would not change dramatically, not even under the inspirational Obama.