American grand strategy under Obama : competing discourses / Georg Löfflmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Löfflmann, Georg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--2009-2017.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Discover how rivalling discourses of American grand strategy reveal a fractured consensus of geopolitical identity and national security under President Obama. This conflict manifested in divergent elite visions of liberal hegemony, cooperative engagement and unilateral restraint. Georg Lo<U+00cc>˜fflmann examines the identity conflict within the Washington foreign policy establishment, between elite insiders and outsiders, and how the 'Obama Doctrine' both confirmed a geopolitical vision of American exceptionalism and challenged established notions of US hegemony and world leadership.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES AND TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 REIMAGINING GRAND STRATEGY

Chapter 2 FILMING HEGEMONY: HOLLYWOOD AND THE MANICHEAN SCRIPT OF GEOPOLITICS

Chapter 3 COMPETING VISIONS FOR AMERICA – POPULAR DISCOURSES OF GRAND STRATEGY ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLERS LIST

Chapter 4 THE AMERICAN GRAND STRATEGY DEBATE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Chapter 5 THINK TANKS AND THE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS ON HEGEMONY

Chapter 6 STRATEGIC VISION: NATIONAL SECURITY, DEFENSE POLICY, AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF MILITARY PRE-EMINENCE

Chapter 7 THE ‘OBAMA DOCTRINE’ – VISION FOR CHANGE

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 20, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4744-1977-1

1-4744-3519-X

OCLC:

1306540190