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American Presidents and the United Nations: Internationalism in the Balance offers a fresh look at the U.S.-UN relationship. The current discourse regarding America's linkage with the UN—and particularly about the President's influence on the world body—has metamorphosed well beyond the conventional conversation of the post-World War II generation. This book places the UN-U.S. relationship within the evolving fabric of international affairs and American political developments through the 2020 presidential election, into the early Biden administration. The text integrates analyses of individual presidential politics and presidential foreign policy preferences from Franklin Roosevelt through Donald Trump, with congressional responses, and seemingly ever-accelerating, troublesome, and often unanticipated international crises. Readers will find the latest scholarship, primary sourcing, as well as synthesis, and a fresh analysis of the ongoing and increasingly multifaceted political and intellectual debate about America's role in the world. The book spotlights one of the most creative, complex, and inspirited global institutions ever devised by human beings—the United Nations—and puts it in context with the powerful role of the American presidency. Essential for students, scholars, and general readers alike.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
The President and the United Nations
Presidential Worldviews
Some Definitions
The Liberal International Order
Idealism
Realism
Neoconservatism
Neoliberalism and its Critics from the Left
Populism
The American Debate about the United Nations and World Affairs
The United Nations at Three-Quarters of a Century
Traditional and Contemporary Arrangements of International Politics
Chapter 2 Building and Maintaining the Postwar Order: FDR to Jimmy Carter
Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age
Arms Control and Disarmament
Maintenance of Peace and Security
Envisioning a Better World
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Ronald Reagan: The Shining City on the Hill
Reagan and the World
Ronald Reagan and the UN: Phase One
The Evil Empire
The Middle East, Reagan, and the UN
Iran-Contra
Gorbachev
Reagan and the UN: Phase Two
Conclusion
Chapter 4 The New World Order: George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton
Reaching an Apex in Multilateralism
President Bush and the Gulf War
Peacekeeping
Democratic Enlargement
Peacekeeping Redux
UN Reform
Conclusion
Chapter 5 George W. Bush: Challenging Collective Security
God's Will Be Done
Distaste for International Organizations and Agreements
September 11, 2001
Democracy and the End of Tyranny
Iraq War
The Quartet and a Roadmap to Peace
The Other Side of George W. Bush
The Missed Opportunity
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Barack Obama: Pragmatism in the Service of a Future Global Order
"Hardheaded at the Same Time as We're Bighearted": The Niebuhrian President
Four Speeches and a Prize
America's Retreat from UN Engagement
The Middle East
Ending Two Wars
Palestinian-Israeli Dispute
Arab Spring
Russia-U.S. Confrontation in the Security Council
Curbing Iran's Nuclear Program
Climate Change
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Donald Trump: The Impulses of Nativism and Isolationism
The Crisis of 2020
America's Retreat from Multilateralism
Struggles Within the Administration
Disrupting the Middle East Quagmire
The Korean Crisis
Confronting China
Trumpism, the UN, and the Future
Conclusion
Epilogue
Index
