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020			_a0190202629 _q(hardback ; _qalk. paper)
020			_a9780190202620 _q(hardback ; _qalk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)892895346 _z(OCoLC)908197807
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100	1		_aDueck, Colin, _d1969- _9282547
245	1	4	_aThe Obama doctrine : _bAmerican grand strategy today / _cColin Dueck.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c[2015]
300			_axi, 323 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 287-310) and indexes.
505	0		_aChapter 1. Barack Obama and American Grand Strategy -- Chapter 2. International Accommodation and Retrenchment -- Chapter 3. The Domestic Politics of the Obama Doctrine -- Chapter 4. Republican Alternatives to the Obama Doctrine -- Chapter 5. Conservative American Realism.
520			_a"An incisive evaluation of foreign policy and the meaning of power in the Obama era"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"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. It has been consistently cautious since Obama was inaugurated in 2009, but recent events in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Far East have led an increasingly large number of foreign policy experts to conclude that caution has transformed into weakness. In The Obama Doctrine, Colin Dueck analyzes and explains what the Obama Doctrine in foreign policy actually is, and maps out the competing visions on offer from the Republican Party. 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. There have been some successes in the approach, but there have also been costs. For instance, much of the world no longer trusts the US to exert its will in international politics, and America's adversaries overseas have asserted themselves with increasing frequency. The Republican Party will target these perceived weaknesses in the 2016 presidential campaign and develop competing counter-doctrines in the process. Dueck explains that within the Republican Party, there are two basic impulses vying with each other: neo-isolationism and forceful internationalism. Dueck subdivides each impulse into the specific agenda of the various factions within the party: Tea Party nationalism, neoconservatism, conservative internationalism, and neo-isolationism. 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. After dissecting the various strands, he articulates an agenda of forward-leaning American realism--that is, a policy in which the US engages with the world and is willing to use threats of force for realist ends. The Obama Doctrine not only provides a sharp appraisal of foreign policy in the Obama era; it lays out an alternative approach to marshaling American power that will help shape the foreign policy debate in the run-up to the 2016 elections"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aObama, Barack. _912022
650		0	_aWorld politics _y21st century. _91286
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _y2009- _9188480
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