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.
Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama: Constructing crises, fast and slow
1st Edition
By Wesley Widmaier
November 13, 2014
Over the past century, presidential constructions of crises have spurred recurring redefinitions of U.S. interests, as crusading advance has alternated with realist retrenchment. For example, Harry Truman and George W. Bush constructed crises that justified liberal crusades in the Cold War and War ...
The Origins of the US War on Terror: Lebanon, Libya and American Intervention in the Middle East
1st Edition
By Mattia Toaldo
November 10, 2014
The war on terror did not start after 9/11, rather its origins must be traced back much further to the Reagan administration and the 1980s. Utilizing recently declassified archival resources, Toaldo offers an in-depth analysis of how ideas and threat perceptions were shaped both by traditional US ...
US Foreign Policy and the Rogue State Doctrine
1st Edition
By Alex Miles
November 10, 2014
Concerns over Iran’s nuclear programme, North Korea’s nuclear brinkmanship and, in the past, Iraq’s apparent pursuit of WMD have captured the world’s attention, and dominated the agenda of the American foreign policy establishment. But, what led policymakers and the US military to emphasise the ...
West Africa and the U.S. War on Terror
1st Edition
Edited
By George Kieh, Kelechi Kalu
November 10, 2014
Since the terrorist attacks on the American homeland on September 11, 2001, fighting the menace has become the frontier issue on the U.S.’ national security agenda. In the case of the African Continent, the United States has, and continues to accord major attention to the West African sub-region. ...
Congressional Policymaking in Sino-U.S. Relations during the Post-Cold War Era
1st Edition
By Joseph Gagliano
September 05, 2014
Conventional wisdom holds that the President enjoys the preponderance of foreign policy power, however Congress has influenced China policymaking more than is generally recognized. The legislature has demonstrated consistent interests in the realm of China policy, and it has invariably pursued ...
Constructing America's Freedom Agenda for the Middle East: Democracy or Domination
1st Edition
By Oz Hassan
July 03, 2014
This book explores how George W. Bush’s Freedom Agenda for the Middle East and North Africa was conceived and implemented as an American national interest, from the Bush era right through to the initial stages of the Obama administration. It highlights how the crisis presented by September 11 2001 ...
Obama and the World: New Directions in US Foreign Policy
2nd Edition
Edited
By Inderjeet Parmar, Linda B. Miller, Mark Ledwidge
April 14, 2014
This significantly revised, updated and extended second edition of New Directions in US Foreign Policy retains the strongest aspects of its original structure but adds a comprehensive account of the latest theoretical perspectives, the key actors and issues, and new policy directions. ...
Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy: The strategic use of a concept
1st Edition
By Michelle Bentley
March 13, 2014
This book examines the use of concepts – specifically ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD) – in US foreign policy discourse. Current analysis of WMD definition has made headway into identifying the repercussions that the conceptual conflation of such diverse weapons – typically understood as a ...
Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronald Cox
November 08, 2013
More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations and the US state in the development of foreign policies related to globalization....
Prevention, Pre-emption and the Nuclear Option: From Bush to Obama
1st Edition
By Aiden Warren
August 07, 2013
Despite its portrayal as a bold departure, the Bush Doctrine was not the "new" or "revolutionary" policy instrument that many at the time portended. This work seeks to argue that while it was clear that the Bush Doctrine certainly qualified as a preventive war policy, it is apparent that the ...
Race and US Foreign Policy: The African-American Foreign Affairs Network
1st Edition
By Mark Ledwidge
August 07, 2013
African-Americans' analysis of, and interest in, foreign affairs represents a rich and dynamic legacy, and this work provides a cutting edge insight into this neglected aspect of US foreign affairs. In addition to extending the parameters of US foreign policy literature to include race and ...
The United States and NATO since 9/11: The Transatlantic Alliance Renewed
1st Edition
By Ellen Hallams
August 06, 2013
The US decision not to work through NATO after 9/11 left many European members of the alliance feeling deflated. This decision reflected not only the unilateralism of the Bush Administration, but also the belief that US operational freedom and flexibility had been hampered during NATO’s two Balkans...