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.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Palestine, Israel and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Geraldine Kidd
June 30, 2021
Memorialised as a US heroine and an iconoclastic humanitarian who sought to protect society’s marginalised, Eleanor Roosevelt also, at times, disappointed contemporaries and biographers with some of her stances. Examining a period of her life that has not been extensively explored, this book ...
India-America Relations (1942-62): Rooted in the Liberal International Order
1st Edition
By Atul Bhardwaj
June 30, 2021
Examining India-America relations between 1942-62, this book reconsiders the role of America in shaping the imagination of post-colonial India. It rejects a conventional orthodoxy that assigns a limited role to America and challenges narratives which neglect the natural asymmetries and focus on ...
Kissinger, Angola and US-African Foreign Policy: The Unintentional Realist
1st Edition
By Steven O'Sullivan
June 30, 2021
Analysing US foreign policy towards Angola during the Ford administration, this book provides an intriguing insight into one of the most avoidable and unfortunate episodes in Cold War history and explores the impact on Henry Kissinger’s much vaunted reputation for being guided by realist ...
North Korea - US Relations: From Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un
2nd Edition
By Ramon Pacheco Pardo
June 30, 2021
How has North Korea sought to normalize diplomatic relations with the US? Explaining the continuities between the Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-il governments, as well as the discontinuities, especially the decisive move towards brinkmanship under Kim Jong-un culminating in 2017 and subsequent turn ...
The Foreign Policies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Martin A. Smith
June 30, 2021
This book offers a comparative analysis of the approaches, policies and records of the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, through an examination of key foreign policy issues that caused controversy and debate both during the 1990s and in the years since 9/11.In the post 9/11 ...
Wilsonian Approaches to American Conflicts: From the War of 1812 to the First Gulf War
1st Edition
By Ashley Cox
June 30, 2021
This book explores US foreign policy, specifically the history of America’s entry into the War of 1812, the First World War, the Korean War and the First Gulf War. Using a historical case study approach, it demonstrates how the Wilsonian Framework can give us a unique understanding of why the ...
Democracy Promotion as US Foreign Policy: Bill Clinton and Democratic Enlargement
1st Edition
By Nicolas Bouchet
August 14, 2020
The role of democracy promotion in US foreign policy has increased considerably in the last three decades, booming especially in the immediate years after the end of the Cold War. The rise of democracy promotion originated in a long historical tradition that saw exporting American political values ...
Risk and Presidential Decision-making: The Emergence of Foreign Policy Crises
1st Edition
By Trenta Luca
June 30, 2020
This book aims at gauging whether the nature of US foreign policy decision-making has changed after the Cold War as radically as a large body of literature seems to suggest, and develops a new framework to interpret presidential decision-making in foreign policy. It locates the study of risk in US ...
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 ...