Obama, Us Foreign Policy and the Dilemmas of Intervention

2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-42855-4
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 151 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

This timely study analyses the ways in which competing ideologies and cultural narratives have influenced the Obama administration's decision-making on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, situating these decisions within the broader history of American foreign policy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzgerald, D.

Ryan, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Good, Safe, Strong: Obama and the Impossible Reconciliation 2. Obama and Iraq: the 'Dumb' War 3. Afghanistan, Escalation and the 'Good War' 4. Afghan 'Good Enough' 5. The Libya Exception 6. Syria and the Dilemmas of Intervention Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

David Fitzgerald is Lecturer in International Politics in University College Cork, Ireland and specializes in the history of counterinsurgency and the history of American military culture.
 
David Ryan is Chair of Modern History in University College Cork, Ireland and has published extensively on contemporary history and US foreign policy concentrating on the interventions in the post-Vietnam era.