Obama's Foreign Policy (eBook, PDF)

Ending the War on Terror
Redaktion: Bentley, Michelle; Holland, Jack

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134548477
• Artikelnr.: 39704239

Autorenporträt

Dr Michelle Bentley is a Researcher at the University of Southampton. She specialises in US foreign policy and international security, especially where this relates to the construction of, and policy responses to, extreme threats. In particular, she is interested in weapons of mass destruction and mass fatality terrorism. Dr Jack Holland is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Surrey. His research broadly focuses on foreign and security policy. In particular his expertise lies in American, British and Australian foreign policy, especially during the 'War on Terror'. He is also interested in critical approaches in International Relations, such as constructivism.

Inhaltsangabe

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