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Presidential Doctrines

U.S. National Security from George Washington to Barack Obama

von: Joseph M. Siracusa, Aiden Warren
41,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	18.07.2016
ISBN/EAN:	9781442267497
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	292

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Titelbeschreibung

This text assesses and evaluates the key U.S. presidential doctrines from Washington to Obama. It demonstrates that in spite of differences between successive administrations, in most instances presidential doctrines have articulated both the responses and directions conducive to an international order that best advances American interests, including democracy, open free markets, self-determining states that adhere to U.S. principles, and a secure global environment. This is manifest through such policy goals as containment, interventionism, engagement, de-entanglement, and securing the region. It also shows that the current dilemmas facing the U.S. are a continuation of perennial policy challenges, from Washington’s warning to steer clear of permanent alliances to George Bush’s radical doctrine of prevention and pre-emption and Obama’s “reluctant realist” doctrine. In navigating and assessing the key presidential doctrines, the book explains both the individual and defining themes American presidents have embodied in their respective doctrines in attempting to meet national interest goals. Ultimately, it shows that although each doctrine was formulated in reaction to immediate foreign policy concerns, each also addressed fundamental aspects of U.S. national security that led future statesmen to follow its broad objectives and prescriptions.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Presidential doctrines since Washington are evaluated to show that, despite differences between administrations, these doctrines have articulated both the responses and directions conducive to an international order that best advances U.S. interests, including “democracy,” open free markets, self-determining states, and a secure global environment.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 
 
Abbreviations/Acronyms 
 
Introduction
 
Chapter 1: Non-Entangling Alliances
 
Chapter 2: Securing the Region
 
Chapter 3: The Seeds of Democracy Promotion
 
Chapter 4: The New Terrain: Containing the ‘Outside’
 
Chapter 5: Maintaining the ‘Outside’
Chapter 6: Variations and Continuities in Cold War Approaches
Chapter 7: Prevention for the 21
st
 Century
Chapter 8: Pragmatic Realism and the Use-of-force
Conclusion
Bibliography

Autorenportrait

Joseph M. Siracusa is Professor of Human Security and International Diplomacy in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia.
 
 
Aiden Warren is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia.