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Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

Series Editor: John Dumbrell, Inderjeet Parmar

This new series sets out to publish high quality works by leading and emerging scholars critically engaging with United States Foreign Policy. The series welcomes a variety of approaches to the subject and draws on scholarship from international relations, security studies, international political economy, foreign policy analysis and contemporary international history.

Subjects covered include the role of administrations and institutions, the media, think tanks, ideologues and intellectuals, elites, transnational corporations, public opinion, and pressure groups in shaping foreign policy, US relations with individual nations, with global regions and global institutions and America’s evolving strategic and military policies.

The series aims to provide a range of books – from individual research monographs and edited collections to textbooks and supplemental reading for scholars, researchers, policy analysts, and students.

New and Published Books

1-10 of 21 results in Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

  1. Race and US Foreign Policy

    The African-American Foreign Affairs Network

    By Mark Ledwidge

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    African-Americans' analysis of, and interest in, foreign affairs represents a rich and dynamic legacy, and this work provides a cutting edge insight into this neglected aspect of US foreign affairs. In addition to extending the parameters of US foreign policy literature to include race and...

    Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge

  2. The United States and NATO since 9/11

    The Transatlantic Alliance Renewed

    By Ellen Hallams

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    The US decision not to work through NATO after 9/11 left many European members of the alliance feeling deflated. This decision reflected not only the unilateralism of the Bush Administration, but also the belief that US operational freedom and flexibility had been hampered during NATO’s two Balkans...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Local Interests and American Foreign Policy

    Why International Interventions Fail

    By Karl Sandstrom

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    This book provides an alternative perspective on how social interest-groups form and interact to affect interventions. It combines historic, sociological and international relations perspectives in a framework through which to view the relevant socio-political dynamics in ‘target societies’. At a...

    Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge

  4. US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion

    From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama

    Edited by Michael Cox, Timothy J. Lynch, Nicolas Bouchet

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widely perceived as failed attempts at enforced democratization, sufficient that Barack Obama has felt compelled to downplay the rhetoric of...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  5. West Africa and the U.S. War on Terror

    Edited by George Kieh, Kelechi Kalu

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    Since the terrorist attacks on the American homeland on September 11, 2001, fighting the menace has become the frontier issue on the U.S.’ national security agenda. In the case of the African Continent, the United States has, and continues to accord major attention to the West African sub-region....

    Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge

  6. US Foreign Policy and the Rogue State Doctrine

    By Alex Miles

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    Concerns over Iran’s nuclear programme, North Korea’s nuclear brinkmanship and, in the past, Iraq’s apparent pursuit of WMD have captured the world’s attention, and dominated the agenda of the American foreign policy establishment. But, what led policymakers and the US military to emphasise the...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Constructing US Foreign Policy

    The Curious Case of Cuba

    By David Bernell

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    This book seeks to address the roots of the hostility that has characterized the United States’ relationship with Cuba and has persisted for decades, long after the Cold War. It answers the question of why America’s Cold War era policy toward Cuba has not substantially changed, despite a radically...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge

  8. The Origins of the US War on Terror

    Lebanon, Libya and American Intervention in the Middle East

    By Mattia Toaldo

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    The war on terror did not start after 9/11, rather its origins must be traced back much further to the Reagan administration and the 1980s. Utilizing recently declassified archival resources, Toaldo offers an in-depth analysis of how ideas and threat perceptions were shaped both by traditional US...

    Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East

    Democracy or Domination

    By Oz Hassan

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    This book explores how George W. Bush’s Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa was conceived and implemented as an American national interest, from the Bush era right through to the initial stages of the Obama administration. It highlights how the crisis presented by September 11 2001...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Neoconservatism and American Foreign Policy

    A Critical Analysis

    By Danny Cooper

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    At the time of America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, the term "neoconservative" was enjoying wide currency. To this day, it remains a term that engenders much debate and visceral reaction. The purpose of this book is to critically engage with a set of ideas and beliefs that define the neoconservative...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Prevention, Pre-emption and the Nuclear Option: From Bush to Obama
    By Aiden Warren
    To Be Published June 29th 2013
  2. The Obama Administration’s Nuclear Weapon Strategy: The Promises of Prague
    By Aiden Warren
    To Be Published July 17th 2013
  3. Obama's Foreign Policy: Ending the War on Terror
    Edited by Michelle Bentley, Jack Holland
    To Be Published September 22nd 2013
  4. Ideologies of US Foreign Policy: From Pearl Harbour to the Present
    By John Callaghan, Brendon O'Connor, Mark Phythian
    To Be Published September 30th 2013
  5. United States - Africa Security Relations: Terrorism, Regional Security and National Interests
    Edited by Kelechi Kalu, George Kieh
    To Be Published October 29th 2013
  6. Strategy in US Foreign Policy After the Cold War
    By Nicholas Kitchen
    To Be Published November 29th 2013
  7. Clinton and Bush's Foreign and Security Policies: Clear Blue Water?
    By Martin A. Smith
    To Be Published November 30th 2013
  8. New Directions in US Foreign Policy: Obama and the World, 2nd Edition
    Edited by Inderjeet Parmar, Linda B. Miller, Mark Ledwidge
    To Be Published January 14th 2014
  9. Religion and US Foreign Policy
    By Lee Marsden
    To Be Published January 29th 2014
  10. American Images of China: Identity, Power, Policy
    By Oliver Turner
    To Be Published January 29th 2014

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