Books in the Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy series

"This book will comprehensively outline and evaluate the key Obama nuclear weapons policies, developments and initiatives from 2008-2012"--

Discusses about the racial aspect of the US foreign affairs. This book documents case-specific analysis of the evolutionary development of the African American foreign affairs network.

An examination of US policy towards Cuba after the Cold War, from 1989-2008. It discusses the competition between Congress and the executive for control of policy, and the domestic interests which shaped policymaking and led to the passage of 2 major pieces of legislation which tightened the embargo on Cuba and were fiercely resisted by US allies.

Provides a comparison of the reconstruction of Japan from 1945 to 1952 with the reconstruction of Iraq, evaluating the key factors affecting the success or failure of such projects. This book seeks to understand why American officials believed that extensive social reengineering aiming at seeding democracy and economic development is replicable.

Examines US attitudes to, and perspectives on, the transatlantic alliance, with a particular focus on US-NATO relations since 9/11.

Combines strategic analysis of contemporary US foreign policy with long-term historical discussion, producing an important argument relevant to the debates surrounding both the merits of contemporary US foreign policy and the long-term trends at work in American political culture.

This book examines the emergence, development, and transformation of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East from the early 1900s to the present day. With contributions from some of the world's leading scholars, it takes a fresh, interdisciplinary, and insightful look into the many antecedents that led to the current U.S. foreign policy.

This edited volume examines whether Obama was still acting within the foreign policy shadow of Bush, or if he was able to establish his own approach towards international affairs, distinct from his predecessor. Within this context, the idea of legacy is also addressed and if Obama succeeded in establishing a distinct foreign policy doctrine.

Examining five states engaged in territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea, this book explores what factors have influenced state decisions to form security relationships with the United States and how the evolution of these factors might affect future security relationships in the South China Sea.

Since the terrorist attacks on the American homeland on September 11, 2001, fighting the menace has become the frontier issue on the U.S.¿ national security agenda. In the case of the African Continent, the United States has, and continues to accord major attention to the West African sub-region. The book examines the crises of underdevelopment¿cultural, economic, environmental, political, security and social¿in the sub-region, especially their impact on shaping the conditions that provide the taproots of terrorism. Clearly, addressing these multidimensional crises of underdevelopment is pivotal to the success of the U.S. war on terrorism in the sub-region.

The book examines the broad gamut of the United States' security relations-terrorism, AFRICOM, military cooperation, national interests, and natural resources- with Africa.

This edited volume is an innovative analysis of President Barack Obamäs foreign policy, security and counter-terrorism policy, specifically within the context of ending the now infamous War on Terror. The book adopts a comparative approach, analysing change and continuity in US foreign policy during Obamäs first term in office vis-à-vis the foreign policy of the War on Terror, initiated by George W. Bush following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Examining India-America relations between 1942-62, this book reconsiders the role of America in shaping the imagination of post-colonial India.

This book does not conclude that public diplomacy has no place in the repertoire of American foreign policy. Instead, the expectations held for this soft power tool should be more realistic and it should not be viewed as a substitute for hard power tools.

This book examines the emergence, development, and transformation of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East from the early 1900s to the present day. With contributions from some of the world¿s leading scholars, it takes a fresh, interdisciplinary, and insightful look into the many antecedents that led to the current U.S. foreign policy.

This edited volume examines whether these issues of continuity have been equally as prevalent during the president¿s second term as his first. Is he still acting within the foreign policy shadow of Bush, or has he been able to establish his own approach towards international affairs, distinct from his predecessor? Within this context, this volume also addresses the idea of legacy and whether Obama has succeeded in establishing his own distinct foreign policy doctrine.

Contrary to the view held by many who study American foreign policy, public diplomacy has seldom played a decisive role in the achievement of the country's foreign policy objectives. The reasons for this are not that the policies and interventions are ill-conceived or badly executed. Rather, the factors that limit the effectiveness of public diplomacy lie almost entirely outside the control of American policy-makers. This book does not conclude that public diplomacy has no place in the repertoire of American foreign policy. Instead, the expectations held for this soft power tool should be more realistic and it should not be viewed as a substitute for hard power tools that are more likely to be correlated with American influence as opposed to the somewhat nebulous concept of American standing.

This book argues that structural theories, and any approach that limits itself to one level of analysis, are inadequate to explain the development of US foreign policy.

Tracing U.S. shifts from crusading to pragmatic tendencies since its rise as a great power, Widmaier counters the rationalist frameworks which cast crises as mechanisms of efficient, self-reinforcing change.