Description
This significantly revised, updated and extended second edition of New Directions in US Foreign Policy retains the strongest aspects of its original structure but adds a comprehensive account of the latest theoretical perspectives, the key actors and issues, and new policy directions. Offering a detailed and systematic outline of the field, this text:
- Explains how international relations theories such as realism, liberalism and constructivism can help us to interpret US foreign policy under President Obama
- Examines the key influential actors shaping foreign policy, from political parties and think tanks to religious groups and public opinion
- Explores the most important new policy directions under the Obama administration from the Arab Spring and the rise of China to African policy and multilateralism
- Supplies succinct presentation of relevant case material, and provides recommendations for further reading and web sources for pursuing future research.
Written by a distinguished line-up of contributors actively engaged in original research on the topics covered, and featuring twelve brand new chapters, this text provides a unique platform for rigorous debate over the contentious issues that surround US foreign policy. This wide-ranging text is essential reading for all students and scholars of US foreign policy.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Theories; Chapter 1 Realism and US foreign policy, Adam Quinn; Chapter 2 Constructivism, US foreign policy, and counterterrorism, Richard Jackson, Matt McDonald; Chapter 3 Neoconservatism in the age of Obama, Robert Singh; Chapter 4 Obama, liberalism, and US foreign policy, Timothy J. Lynch; Chapter 5 Marxism and US foreign policy, Doug Stokes, David Maher; Chapter 6 Barack Obama, Mark Ledwidge; Chapter 7 Hegemonic transition and US foreign policy, Nick Kitchen; Part 2 Non-state actors; Chapter 8 Parties, polarization, and US foreign policy, Steven Hurst; Chapter 9 Changing minds, changing course, Donald E. Abelson; Chapter 10 Conservative evangelicals, the Tea Party, and US foreign policy, Lee Marsden; Chapter 11 American foreign policy during the Obama administration, James M. McCormick; Chapter 12 Corporate elite networks and US foreign policy, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Naná de Graaff; Part 3 New problems, paradigms, and policies; Chapter 13 The Obama administration’s policy toward Africa, George Klay KiehJr; Chapter 14 The offensive turn, Trevor McCrisken, Mark Phythian; Chapter 15 Transatlantic relations and US foreign policy, David Hastings Dunn, Benjamin Zala; Chapter 16 The US ‘pivot’ to the Asia Pacific, Oliver Turner; Chapter 17 The United States and the Arab spring, Linda B. Miller; Chapter 18 Obama, Wikileaks, and American power, Inderjeet Parmar; Chapter 19 The United States and the UN, Craig N. Murphy; Part 4 A view from practitioners; Chapter 20 American power, patterns of rise and decline, Ketan Patel, Christian Hansmeyer; Chapter 21 Presidents’ agenda, Ketan Patel, Christian Hansmeyer; afterword Afterword: Securing freedom, Andrew Hammond, Richard J. Aldrich;
