Foreign Policy
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Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East
Democracy or Domination
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
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West Africa and the U.S. War on Terror
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
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The Origins of the US War on Terror
Lebanon, Libya and American Intervention in the Middle East
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
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US Foreign Policy and the Rogue State Doctrine
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 December 10th 2012 by Routledge
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US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion
From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama
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
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Religion and US Foreign Policy
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
The events of 11 September 2001 opened a new century in which the old certainties about a secular international order were brought into sharp relief. Scholars and foreign policy analysts had largely accepted a secular worldview and paid little heed to the resurgent religious dimension around the...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Strategy in US Foreign Policy After the Cold War
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
This book studies the debates surrounding the grand strategy of the United States following the Cold War. It assesses the strategic ideas that have been advanced to conceptualise American foreign policy, grouping these thematically under the headings of primacy, neo-isolationism and liberal...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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The Obama Administration’s Nuclear Weapon Strategy
The Promises of Prague
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
This book comprehensively outlines and evaluates the key Obama nuclear weapons policies, developments and initiatives from 2008-2012. Beginning with the Administration’s vision and goals posited in the 2009 Prague Speech and reaffirmed in the National Security Strategy of 2010, the book assess the...
To Be Published July 17th 2013 by Routledge
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Ideologies of US Foreign Policy
From Pearl Harbour to the Present
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
The current Bush administration has frequently been labelled one of the most ideologically driven administrations in recent American history, its Iraq policy often said to represent the triumph of ideology over sensible policy advice. The name almost always given to the ideology that has supposedly...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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American Exceptionalism
An Ideology that Made a Nation and Re-made the World
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
This book offers a different account of the relationship between the American identity of exceptionalism and U.S. foreign policy. Conventional wisdom suggests that a "schizophrenic" American exceptionalist identity has inspired a dichotomous foreign policy tradition that cycles between isolationism...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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American Images of China
Identity, Power, Policy
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
The United States and China are arguably the most globally consequential actors of the early twenty first century, and look set to remain so into the foreseeable future. This volume seeks to highlight that American images of China are responsible for constructing certain truths and realities about...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Clinton and Bush's Foreign and Security Policies
Clear Blue Water?
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
This book offers a comparative analysis of the approaches, policies and records of the Clinton administration and the current administration of George W. Bush with regard to key foreign policy issues. The issue areas selected for examination are those that have aroused particular controversy and...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Local Interests and American Foreign Policy
Why International Interventions Fail
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...
To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Obama's Foreign Policy
Ending the War on Terror
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
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...
To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge
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What is anti-Americanism?
Beyond Pride and Prejudice
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
Beyond Anti-Americanism presents a case for seeing anti-Americanism as principally a counterproductive prejudice. Brendon O'Connor argues that while there are many reasons to be frustrated with American policies, politics and even American society, a crucial distinction should be drawn...
To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy
Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations and the US state in the development of foreign policies related to globalization....
Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Selling the War on Terror
Foreign Policy Discourses after 9/11
Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
This book uses a comparative analysis to examine foreign policy discourses and the dynamics of the ‘War on Terror'. The book considers the three principal members of the Coalition of the Willing in Afghanistan and Iraq: the United States, Britain and Australia. Despite significant cultural,...
Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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New Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
A Comparative Study of Policy and Practice
Series: Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
This book examines the concept of new public diplomacy against empirical data derived from three country case studies, in order to offer a systematic assessment of policy and practice in the early 21st century. The new public diplomacy (PD) is a major paradigm shift in international political...
Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Mechanistic Realism and US Foreign Policy
A New Framework for Analysis
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy decision-making. Typically, realism discounts the role of individuals and uses states as the unit of analysis. By examining instead the mental...
To Be Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Becoming Rivals
The Process of Interstate Rivalry Development
Series: Foreign Policy Analysis
Rivalries are a fundamental aspect of all international interactions. The concept of rivalry suggests that historic animosity may be the most fundamental variable in explaining and understanding why states commit international violence against each other. By understanding the historic factors...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific
Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior
Series: Foreign Policy Analysis
Why does North Korea behave erratically in pursuing its nuclear weapons program? Why did the United States prefer bilateral alliances to multilateral ones in Asia after World War II? Why did China become "nice"—no more military coercion—in dealing with the pro-independence Taiwan President Chen...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq
Encountering the Abyss
Series: Interventions
The political philosophy of Leo Strauss has been the subject of significant scholarly and media attention in recent years, particularly in the context of the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Allegations that a group of Strauss-inspired Neo-conservatives intervened in the foreign policy...
To Be Published June 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy
Sanctions, Incentives, and Target State Calculations
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
This book develops a unified theory of economic statecraft to clarify when and how sanctions and incentives can be used effectively to secure meaningful policy concessions. High-profile applications of economic statecraft have yielded varying degrees of success. The mixed record of economic...
Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
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National Security Panics
Threat Inflation and US Foreign Policy Shifts
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
This book examines ‘national security panics‘ that led to major U.S. foreign policy shifts. A national security panic is a period when the public was gripped by a widespread fear of imminent threat from an enemy allegedly bent on the destruction of the United States, yet with hindsight, the public...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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The Politics of Protest and US Foreign Policy
Performative Construction of the War on Terror
Series: War, Politics and Experience
This book offers a study of post-9/11 anti-war organizations in the United States and their role in domestic foreign policy debates. The moment of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been much cited in political and cultural scholarship and much attention has been paid to the promotion of "War on...
Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge