Understanding the Bush Doctrine : Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism

ISBN-13: 9780415955041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 344 str.

Professor Stanley A. Renshon; Peter Suedfeld

Opis

In this volume, leading scholars of US foreign policy, international relations, and political psychology examine one of the most consequential and controversial statements of national security policy in contemporary American history. Unlike other books which focus only on unilateralism or preventive war, Stanley A. Renshon and Peter Suedfeld provide a comprehensive framework with which to analyze the Bush Doctrine by identifying five central and interrelated elements of the doctrine:

• American pre-eminence
• assertive realism
• equivocal alliances
• selective multilateralism
• democratic transformation.

Given its centrality to American national security, and the fact that the effects of it are likely to be felt well into the twenty-first century, Understanding the Bush Doctrine will provide a critically balanced and pointed assessment of the Bush Doctrine and its premises, as well as a fair appraisal of its implications and prospects.

Spis treści

Part I. The Foundations of the Bush Doctrine  1. The Bush Doctrine Considered, Stanley A. Renshon  2. International Relations Theory Meets World Politics, Gerard Alexander  Part II. The Bush Doctrine in the Post 9/11 World  3. The Convinced, the Skeptical, and the Hostile, Douglas C. Foyle  4. The New Psychology of Alliances, Peter Suedfeld, Philip E. Tetlock, and Rajiv Jhangiani  5. Illusionary Promises and Strategic Reality, Willie Curtis  6. Deterrence in an Age of Asymmetric Rivals, Jerrold M. Post  7. Preventive War and the Bush Doctrine, Jack S. Levy  8. The Psychological Origins of Preventive War, Jonathan Renshon 9. The ‘Democracy Doctrine’ of President George W. Bush, Marvin Zonis  Part III: The View From Abroad  10. The Bush Doctrine Abroad, Alexander Moens  11. Anti-Americanism, Janice Gross Stein  Part IV: The Bush Doctrine in Perspective  12. Premature Obituary, Stanley A. Renshon  13. The Bush Doctrine in Perspective, Peter Suedfeld