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A Liberal World Restored? : Grand Strategy Analysis and the Biden Administration.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shively, Jacob.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.
- Summary:
- This book applies an innovative approach to identify and assess grand strategy over short time spans and reaches provocative conclusions. Includes in-depth case studies of Biden's presidency.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 The Old World Order
- Power Forward
- Assessing Biden's Internationalism
- Restoration Work
- Not the Best, but Far from the Worst
- Muddled Priorities
- Making the Argument
- Core Contributions
- Pressing Insight
- Liberal Disagreement
- Liberal Dilemmas of Dominance
- Nationalism and Restraint
- Median Convictions
- Biden's Background
- Personnel
- In Sum
- Chapter 2 Quality Description
- The State of Grand Strategy
- Now What?
- Grand Necessity
- Foreign Policy Decision Processes and Outcome Bias
- Grand Strategy Analysis
- Observation Tools
- Ideal Consistency
- Identifying Grand Strategy
- Chapter 3 Priorities: Early Goals and Agendas Through 2021
- The Little Things
- A Running Start
- Early Actions
- Guiding Principles
- Old Is New Again
- "A Free and Open Indo-Pacific"
- Democracy and Human Rights
- The Cuban Test
- Summit for Democracy
- Findings
- Process Quality: National Utility
- Process Quality: Institutional Processes
- Process Quality: Psychology and Decision Processes
- Content
- Outcomes
- Chapter 4 End of the Beginning: The Afghanistan Withdrawal Decision
- Ending an Era
- Decision Portfolio
- Form Over Function
- The Review
- The Power-Sharing Proposal
- The Final Decision
- Conventional Fallout
- Chapter 5 Technically Strategic: Techno-nationalism and the China Challenge
- Great Power Spat
- Techno-nationalism
- Cold War Déjà Vu
- Trade in the USA
- Soft Where?
- Base Logic
- Process Quality: Institutional Processes.
- Process Quality: Psychology and Decision Processes
- Chapter 6 Geostrategic Habits: Responding to Russian Challenges
- Familiar Playbook
- Basic Threats
- Pipeline Dreams
- Cyber Priorities
- Impending War
- Red Lines
- Deterrent Hopes
- Cold War Playbook
- Pulling the Trigger
- Ukraine's Long War
- Building Aid
- Isolating Russia
- Domestic Dissent
- Chapter 7 Partial Restoration
- Summa Bona
- Pars Bona
- Liberal Internationalism, Nationalist Mood: Identifying Biden's Grand Strategy
- Dauntless Hope
- Impersonal Identity
- Man of the Century: Assessing Biden's Grand Strategy
- Grading Grand Strategy
- A Comparative Assessment
- Extensions and Modifications
- Future Description
- Joe Biden's Grand Strategy
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8189-485-6
- 1-9787-6754-4
- 979-82-16-26980-9
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