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 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 11, 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 ...
Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama: Constructing crises, fast and slow
1st Edition
By Wesley Widmaier
November 14, 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
April 27, 2015
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
April 27, 2015
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
April 27, 2015
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 04, 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 04, 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 04, 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 19, 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 ...