The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190659947 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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He favors a realistic but forceful US internationalism, and sees the willingness to disengage from the world by some elements of the party as dangerous. By mid-2015, the Obama presidency will be entering its final stages, and the race among the successors in both parties will be well underway. And while experts have already formed a provisional understanding of the Obama administration's foreign policy goals, the shape of the "Obama Doctrine" is finally coming into full view. Dueck, a leading scholar of US foreign policy, contends it is now becoming clear that Obama's policy of international retrenchment is in large part a function of his emphasis on achieving domestic policy goals. For instance, much of the world no
It's a useful contribution as Americans face the task of electing a new president." --Michael Barone, Washington Examiner, American Enterprise Institute"Dueck's powerful analysis contrasts the Obama Administration's policy of strategic incoherence, which subordinates international commitments to domestic priorities, with the ongoing dominance of internationalists in the Republican Party. It has also been marred by inexperience There is a lot to support Dueck's take." -- Financial Times"With so many Democrats opposing his signature initiative, a lot of liberals are joining conservatives in moving on -- in different di
He studied politics at Princeton University, and international relations at Oxford under a Rhodes scholarship. Foreign Policy since World War II, and Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy.. He has published two books on American foreign and national security policies, Hard Line: The Republican Party and U
Burkean Bibliophile said Shows the Abject Failure of Obama's Foreign and National Security Policies.. A strong assessment of the incoherence of Obama's foreign policy and its failure to understand the eternally combative nature of international relations. Dueck does a good job dissecting Obama's failures in the Mideast and with Russia and China. He also does a good job of describing the various strains of foreign policy thought within the Republican Party including conservative anti-interventionists, conservative internationalists (where I generally find myself, and conservative nationalists who bring a strain of Jacksonian thinking to their foreign policy worldview. Will serve as a useful guide to Republican . Liberals won't like it, but what else is new Graeme P. Auton A consistent and fairly insightful critical treatment of the Barack Obama's disastrous foreign policy. Liberals won't like it, but what else is new? Dueck argues that Obama has prioritized his domestic agenda, and has been totally unwilling to allow foreign policy concerns to endanger that agenda. In the process, the President has allowed U.S. national security to reach a parlous state, in part for purely ideological reasons. There is also more than hint that, given his background, Obama could not possibly have been an effective foreign policy president he lacked the background and experience to be effective.. The book covered a phase of successful foreign policy by The book covered a phase of successful foreign policy by Obama that prevented a larger war that was not recognized by the mainstream press.