| New Beginning in Us-Muslim Relations: President Obama and the Arab Awakening Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): LILLI, Eugenio (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349954454 ISBN-13: 9781349954452 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | American Government - General - Political Science | World - Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: 327.730 |
| Series: Middle East Today |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.84 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book carries out a comparative study of the US response to popular uprisings in the Middle East as an evaluation of President Barack Obama's foreign policy commitments. In 2009, Obama publicly pledged "a new beginning in US-Muslim relations," causing eager expectation of a clear shift in US foreign policy after the election of the 44th president of the United States. However, the achievement of such a shift was made particularly difficult by the existence of multiple, and sometimes conflicting, US interests in the region which influenced the Obama administration's response to the popular uprisings in five Muslim-majority countries: Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and Syria. After providing a detailed analysis of the traditional features of both US foreign policy rhetoric and practice, this book turns its focus to the Obama administration's response to the 2011 Arab Awakening to determine whether Obama's foreign policy has indeed brought about a new beginning in US-Muslim relations. |