The Obama Doctrine : American Grand Strategy Today.

Cover -- The Obama Doctrine -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Barack Obama and American Grand Strategy -- Grand Strategies in the American Experience -- Obama's Place in American Politics -- Obama's Grand Strategy -- 2 International Accommodation and Retrenchment -- Obama's Incoming Strategy -- Counterterrorism -- Nuclear Weapons and Rogue States -- Great Power Competitors -- The Arab Spring -- US Allies, Defense Spending, and Offshore Balancing -- The Problem with the Obama Doctrine -- 3 The Domestic Politics of the Obama Doctrine -- Public Opinion -- Party Politics -- Electoral Politics -- Congressional Politics -- Presidential Leadership -- Looking Ahead to 2016 -- 4 Republican Alternatives to the Obama Doctrine -- Conservative Anti-interventionists -- Conservative Internationalists -- Conservative Nationalists -- Foreign Policy in the 2016 Elections -- 5 Conservative American Realism -- First Things First -- Allies and Adversaries -- Strategies of Pressure -- Trade Policy -- The Lessons of Iraq -- Presidential Leadership -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index to Names of Authors in Notes -- Subject Index.

An incisive evaluation of foreign policy and the meaning of power in the Obama era.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.