Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
About the Book Series
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.
Rhetoric, Media, and the Narratives of US Foreign Policy: Making Enemies
1st Edition
By Adam Lusk
September 25, 2023
Rhetoric, Media, and the Narratives of US Foreign Policy: Making Enemies studies the process of communicating threats to the US public and explores when and why the American public believes another country or regime is a threat. Through a comparative and historical study, the author focuses on how...
The United States and Greek-Turkish Relations: The Guardian’s Dilemma
1st Edition
By Spyros Katsoulas
September 25, 2023
This book examines the role of the United States in Greek–Turkish relations and fills an important gap in alliance theory regarding the guardian’s dilemma. The strategy of a great power involves not only tackling threats from enemies, but also dealing with problems that arise between allies. Every...
U.S. Power and the Social State in Brazil: Legal Modernization in the Global South
1st Edition
By Júlio Cattai
September 25, 2023
The book analyzes the elite-led efforts to transform the Brazilian legal order in the period between 1930–1975 and how U.S. Power played a major role in such a process. Besides the global circulation of ideas, the book discusses the Brazilian institutional development in the period. A profound "...
Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States: How US Corporate Elites Created Iraq’s Political System
1st Edition
By Bamo Nouri
May 31, 2023
This book locates US elites as members of corporate elite networks and drivers of corporate elite interests, arguing that studying the social sources of US power plays an important part in understanding the nature of their decisions in US foreign policy. Exploring the decisions taken by American ...
US Policy Towards Afghanistan, 1979-2014: 'A Force for Good'
1st Edition
By Anthony Teitler
May 06, 2022
Providing a study of US policy towards Afghanistan from the Soviet intervention of 1979 to the exit of US/International Security Assistance Forces combat troops at the end of 2014, this book examines how the United States’ construction of its interests has shaped its long-term involvement with that...
Economic Statecraft and US Foreign Policy: Reducing the Demand for Violence
1st Edition
By Leif Rosenberger
December 13, 2021
Explaining the connection between economics and violent extremism, this book argues that American foreign policy must be rebalanced with a greater emphasis on social inclusion and shared prosperity in order to mitigate the root causes of conflict.Rosenberger argues that economic coercion has ...
US Democracy Promotion after the Cold War: Stability, Basic Premises, and Policy toward Egypt
1st Edition
By Annika Elena Poppe
December 13, 2021
This book explores the often assumed but so far not examined proposition that a particular U.S. culture influences U.S. foreign policy behavior or, more concretely, that widely shared basic assumptions embraced by members of the U.S. administration have a notable impact on foreign ...
The Drug War in Latin America: Hegemony and Global Capitalism
1st Edition
By William Avilés
September 30, 2021
Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite this strategy the region has seen increasing levels of homicide, displacement and violence. Why did the militarization of U.S. drug war policies in ...
US Arms Policies Towards the Shah's Iran
1st Edition
By Stephen McGlinchey
September 30, 2021
This book reconstructs and explains the arms relationship that successive U.S. administrations developed with the Shah of Iran between 1950 and 1979. This relationship has generally been neglected in the extant literature leading to a series of omissions and distortions in the historical record. By...
Alliance Decision-Making in the South China Sea: Between Allied and Alone
1st Edition
By Joseph A. Gagliano
June 30, 2021
The combination of rising Chinese power and longstanding territorial disputes has drawn increased attention and threats to the Asia-Pacific region. Five smaller powers contest Beijing’s claims; Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei and Indonesia, with the United States viewed as the most ...
Clinton, New Terrorism and the Origins of the War on Terror
1st Edition
By Chin-Kuei Tsui
June 30, 2021
A frequent assumption of the American-led ‘war on terror’ and its accompanying discourse originated largely with the George W. Bush Administration, and that there was a counterterrorism policy revolution in the U.S. political arena. Challenging these assumptions, through a genealogical analysis of ...
Democracy Promotion, National Security and Strategy: Foreign Policy under the Reagan Administration
1st Edition
By Robert Pee
June 30, 2021
This book investigates the relationship between democracy promotion and US national security strategy through an examination of the Reagan administration’s attempt to launch a global campaign for democracy in the early 1980s, which culminated in the foundation of the National Endowment for ...