| Barack Obama's Post-American Foreign Policy: The Limits of Engagement Contributor(s): Singh, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1780930380 ISBN-13: 9781780930381 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $217.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | American Government - Executive Branch |
| Dewey: 327 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (1.25 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After one of the most controversial and divisive periods in the history of American foreign policy under President George W. Bush, the Obama administration was expected to make changes for the better in US relations with the wider world. Now, international problems confronting Obama appear more intractable, and there seems to be a marked continuity in policies between Obama and his predecessor. Robert Singh argues that Obama's approach of 'strategic engagement' was appropriate for a new era of constrained internationalism, but it has yielded modest results. Obama's search for the pragmatic middle has cost him political support at home and abroad, whilst failing to make decisive gains. Singh suggests by calibrating his foreign policies to the emergence of a 'post-American'world, the president has yet to preside over a renaissance of US global leadership. Ironically, Obama's policies have instead hastened the arrival of a post-American world. |