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A Liberal World Restored? : Grand Strategy Analysis and the Biden Administration.

Bloomsbury Collections: Politics & International Relations 2026 Available online

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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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