Towards the end of his second term, it appears George W. Bush s foreign policy has won few admirers, with pundits and politicians eagerly and opportunistically bashing the tenets of the Bush Doctrine. This provocative account dares to counter the dogma of Bush s Beltway detractors and his ideological enemies, boldly arguing that Bush s policy deservedly belongs within the mainstream of the American foreign policy tradition. Though the shifting tide of public opinion has led many to anticipate that his successor will repudiate the actions of the past eight years, authors Timothy Lynch and...

For more than a century at least, American presidents have been driven by deep historical and ideological forces to conceive US foreign policy in part through the lens of democracy promotion. This book offers a collection of articles that debate how far democratic aspirations have been realized in actual foreign policies.

After Obama examines how and why US influence has contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values.

This book examines American engagement with the world from the fall of Soviet communism through the opening years of the Trump administration. While Timothy J. Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow on every president that came after it, he finds that the US remained the world's dominant power.