The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skidmore, David.

Series:

Foreign policy analysis (Routledge (Firm))

Foreign Policy Analysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unilateral acts (International law).

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

Local Subjects:

Unilateral acts (International law).

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The pattern of multilateral engagement and unilateral retrenchment in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years presents a puzzle. What accounts for the unilateralist turn? Is it a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush administration? What then of the disengagement evident earlier during Clinton's presidency, or its continuation under Obama? Was the U.S. investment in multilateral institutions following World War II an anomaly? Or is the more recent retreat from international institutions the irregularity?<

Contents:

Front Cover; The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; 1. The Unilateralist Turn in U.S. Foreign Policy; 2. The International and Domestic Sources of Unilateralism; 3. Structure and Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy: Clinton and BushCompared; 4. The United States and International Public Goods; 5. Reconfiguring the Terms of U.S. Engagement with InternationalInstitutions; 6. Barack Obama and the Unilateralist Temptation; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-203-83972-2

OCLC:

730151654