UID:
edocfu_9960117223702883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-78943-8
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1-316-79279-X
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1-316-52960-6
Content:
Barack Obama's foreign policy has failed but the American strategic mind has not yet closed. In After Obama, Robert Singh examines how and why US influence has weakened and contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values. A well-intentioned but naive strategy of engagement has encouraged US adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran to assert themselves while allowing Western alliances to fray. But, challenging claims of an inevitable American decline, Singh argues that US leadership is a matter of will as much as wallet. Despite partisan polarization at home and the rise of the rest abroad, Washington can renew American leadership and, through a New American Internationalism, pave a path to the restoration of global order. Timely and provocative, the book offers a powerful critique of the Obama Doctrine and a call for strategic resolution in place of 'leading from behind'.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and tables -- 1 A return to strategy -- The other great recession -- Audacity exhausted: American disengagement -- The Obama syndrome: retrenchment, retreat and accommodation -- The post-Obama era -- 2 Strategic sabbatical: lessons of Obama's failure -- Lesson one: the imperative of grand strategy -- Lesson two: the limits of engagement -- Iran -- Russia -- Iraq, Syria and the rise of ISIS -- Lesson three: the perils of politicization -- Defense policy -- Undeclaring war -- Lesson four: overcommitting and underdelivering -- Conclusion -- 3 "45": prospects for renewal -- Parties, polarization and foreign policy -- Public opinion: taking care of business -- Foreign policy and the 2016 presidential election -- The Republican Party -- The Democratic Party -- Conclusion -- 4 Reversing declinism: toward a second American century? -- The case for decline I: America against itself -- The case for decline II: peak America? -- The "antideclinist" rejoinder: "deja vu all over again" -- Conclusion -- 5 The way forward: a new American internationalism -- A post-Obama Doctrine -- Rebuilding national security and defense -- Restoring alliance management -- Asia -- Europe -- The Middle East -- Reenergizing security by freer trade and securitizing energy -- Reviving muscular internationalism -- Resuming strategic resolution -- After Obama -- Notes -- 1. A return to strategy -- 2. Strategic sabbatical: lessons of Obama's failure -- 3. "45": prospects for renewal -- 4. Reversing declinism: toward a second American century? -- 5. The way forward: a new American internationalism -- Bibliography -- Books -- Articles and reports -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-14248-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-316-50726-2
Language:
English
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