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 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...
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...