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.
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...
The United States, India and the Global Nuclear Order: Narrative Identity and Representation
1st Edition
By Tanvi Pate
April 28, 2020
In the Post-Cold War era, US nuclear foreign policies towards India witnessed a major turnaround as a demand for ‘cap, reduce, eliminate’ under the Clinton administration was replaced by the implementation of the historic ‘civil nuclear deal’ in 2008 by Bush, a policy which continued under Obama’s ...
US Foreign Policy in The Horn of Africa: From Colonialism to Terrorism
1st Edition
By Donna Jackson
December 09, 2019
Examining American foreign policy towards the Horn of Africa between 1945 and 1991, this book uses Ethiopia and Somalia as case studies to offer an evaluation of the decision-making process during the Cold War, and consider the impact that these decisions had upon subsequent developments both ...
US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From American Missionaries to the Islamic State
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey F. Gresh, Tugrul Keskin
November 28, 2019
The dawn of the Cold War marked a new stage of complex U.S. foreign policy involvement in the Middle East. More recently, globalization and the region’s ongoing conflicts and political violence have led to the U.S. being more politically, economically, and militarily enmeshed – for better or ...
The Obama Doctrine: A Legacy of Continuity in US Foreign Policy?
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Bentley, Jack Holland
July 29, 2019
President Obama’s first term in office was subject to intense criticism; not only did many feel that he had failed to live up to his leadership potential, but that he had actually continued the foreign policy framework of the George W. Bush era he was supposed to have abandoned. This edited volume ...
US Power in Latin America: Renewing Hegemony
1st Edition
By Rubrick Biegon
July 29, 2019
An original account of contemporary US-Latin American relations, this book utilises neo-Gramscian and historical materialist approaches to build a novel conceptual framework for analysing US hegemony, extending critical theory in new and exciting directions. It disaggregates US power into distinct ...
Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism: Prejudice and Pride about the USA
1st Edition
By Brendon O'Connor
June 25, 2019
This book argues against the tendency to see America as the worst or best nation and instead presents a case for seeing anti-Americanism as a counterproductive prejudice. There are many reasons to criticise American policies, politics and even society, but a crucial distinction must be drawn ...
Foreign Policy Issues for America: The Trump Years
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard W. Mansbach, James M. McCormick
March 13, 2019
As America’s first president never to have served in government or the military, Donald Trump entered the White House with an unformed foreign policy position. Yet he was confronted by a wide range of developing issues; the rise of China, Russian-United States relations, the resurgence of ...
Ideologies of American Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By John Callaghan, Brendon O'Connor, Mark Phythian
March 01, 2019
A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a global force, on its way to becoming the world power...