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.
US Foreign Policy and China: Bush’s First Term
1st Edition
By Guy Roberts
September 10, 2018
This work is an exploration of how U.S.-China relations were managed by President George W. Bush. Roberts argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, President Bush conducted a calculated, pragmatic and highly successful strategy toward Beijing, which avoided conflict, resolved crisis and ...
Obama's Foreign Policy: Ending the War on Terror
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Bentley, Jack Holland
August 14, 2018
This edited volume is an innovative analysis of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, security and counter-terrorism policy, specifically within the context of ending the now infamous War on Terror. The book adopts a comparative approach, analysing change and continuity in US foreign policy ...
The United States, Iraq and the Kurds: Shock, Awe and Aftermath
1st Edition
By Mohammed Shareef
August 14, 2018
This book provides a descriptive and analytical narrative of the evolution of US foreign policy towards Iraq at the supra-national (global), national (Arab Iraq) and sub-national (Iraqi Kurdistan) levels. The book is unique in that it presents a sophisticated insight into the two major components ...
United States - Africa Security Relations: Terrorism, Regional Security and National Interests
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelechi Kalu, George Kieh
August 14, 2018
United States-Africa relations have experienced four major cycles. The first cycle was during the Cold War(1960-1990). During this period, the U.S. developed a one-sided relationship with various African states in which the latter served as "foot soldiers" for the U.S. in its competition with the ...
Local Interests and American Foreign Policy: Why International Interventions Fail
1st Edition
By Karl Sandstrom
August 02, 2018
This book provides an alternative perspective on how social interest-groups form and interact to affect interventions. It combines historic, sociological and international relations perspectives in a framework through which to view the relevant socio-political dynamics in ‘target societies’. At a ...
The Obama Administration’s Nuclear Weapon Strategy: The Promises of Prague
1st Edition
By Aiden Warren
August 02, 2018
This book comprehensively outlines and evaluates the key Obama nuclear weapons policies, developments and initiatives from 2008–2012. Beginning with the administration’s vision and goals posited in the 2009 Prague Speech and reaffirmed in the National Security Strategy of 2010, the book assesses ...
Anti-Americanism and the Limits of Public Diplomacy: Winning Hearts and Minds?
1st Edition
By Stephen Brooks
October 26, 2017
Contrary to the view held by many who study American foreign policy, public diplomacy has seldom played a decisive role in the achievement of the country's foreign policy objectives. The reasons for this are not that the policies and interventions are ill-conceived or badly executed, although this ...
American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World
1st Edition
By Hilde Eliassen Restad
June 16, 2017
How does American exceptionalism shape American foreign policy? Conventional wisdom states that American exceptionalism comes in two variations – the exemplary version and the missionary version. Being exceptional, experts in U.S. foreign policy argue, means that you either withdraw from the world...
US Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: The Pursuit of Hegemony
1st Edition
By Dionysis Markakis
June 16, 2017
US Democracy Promotion in the Middle East seeks to explore the changes in US strategy towards democracy promotion in the Middle East during the Clinton and Bush administrations, with a particular focus on Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait. At a time of regional turmoil and political reform, the topic of ...
American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks: The Open Door since the End of the Cold War
1st Edition
By Bastiaan Van Apeldoorn, Naná de Graaff
December 02, 2016
This book presents a novel analysis of how US grand strategy has evolved from the end of the Cold War to the present, offering an integrated analysis of both continuity and change. The post-Cold War American grand strategy has continued to be oriented to securing an ‘open door’ to US capital around...
American Images of China: Identity, Power, Policy
1st Edition
By Oliver Turner
March 03, 2016
The United States and China are arguably the most globally consequential actors of the early twenty first century, and look set to remain so into the foreseeable future. This volume seeks to highlight that American images of China are responsible for constructing certain truths and realities about ...
The President, the State and the Cold War: Comparing the foreign policies of Truman and Reagan
1st Edition
By James Bilsland
February 09, 2015
US foreign policy during the Cold War has been analysed from a number of perspectives, generating large bodies of literature attempting to explain its origins, its development and its conclusion. However, there are still many questions left only partially explained. In large part this is because ...