Lessons from Fifteen Years of War / Eliot Cohen -- The American Foreign Policy Debate : Déjà vu? / Henry Nau -- Obama : The Reluctant Realist / Steven David -- Public Opinion and Obama's Foreign Policy / Eytan Gilboa -- America's Standing in China : Chinese Attitudes towards the United States / Jian Wang -- Seoul-Washington Alliance : The Beginning of Independence? / Alon Levkowitz -- Change and Continuity in Russian Perceptions of the Unites States / Dmitri (Dima) Adamsky -- India's Perspective of American Political Leadership and Foreign Policy / Uday Bhashkar -- US-Latin American Relations and the Role of the United States in the World : The View from Latin America / Arie Kacowicz -- Obama and the Middle East : Illusions and Delusions / Efraim Karsh -- US Counter-proliferation Policy : The Case of Iran / Emily Landau -- Erdogan's Turkey and Obama's America / Efrat Aviv -- US-Egyptian Relations / Yehuda. Blanga -- Israeli Attitudes to the Obama Administration / Yaeli Bloch-Elkon and Jonathan Rynhold -- The Impact of a Transformed US Global Stance on Israel's National Security Strategy / Shmuel Sandler.
Summary:
This book examines US foreign policy and global standing in the 21st Century. The United States is the most powerful actor in world politics today. Against this backdrop, the present volume examines how the foreign policies pursued by Presidents' George W. Bush and Barack Obama have affected elite and public perceptions of the United States. By examining America's standing from the perspective of different actors from across various regions, including China, Russia, Latin America and the Middle East, while also assessing how these perceptions interact with America's own policies, this books presents a fresh interpretation of America's global standing. In doing so, the volume evaluates how these perceptions affect the realities of US power, and what impact this has on moulding US foreign policy and the policies of other global powers. A number of books address the question of which grand strategy the United States should adopt and the issue of whether or not America is in relative decline as a world power. However, the debate on these issues has largely been set against the policies of the Bush administration.
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