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American Grand Strategy Under Obama: Competing Discourses
Georg Lofflmann
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Description for American Grand Strategy Under Obama: Competing Discourses
Hardback. This book explores how the position of the United States was defined under the Obama presidency and how the conduct of U.S. foreign and security policy between 2009 and 2014 both confirmed and contested a geopolitical vision of world leadership and American exceptionalism that dominates in popular culture, expert research and political rhetoric. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHL; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This book explores how rivalling discourses of American grand strategy reveal a fractured consensus of geopolitical identity and national security under President Obama. This conflict manifested in divergent elite visions of liberal hegemony, cooperative engagement and unilateral restraint. Georg Lofflmann examines the identity conflict within the Washington foreign policy establishment, between elite insiders and outsiders, and how the 'Obama Doctrine' both confirmed a geopolitical vision of American exceptionalism and challenged established notions of US hegemony and world leadership.
This book explores how rivalling discourses of American grand strategy reveal a fractured consensus of geopolitical identity and national security under President Obama. This conflict manifested in divergent elite visions of liberal hegemony, cooperative engagement and unilateral restraint. Georg Lofflmann examines the identity conflict within the Washington foreign policy establishment, between elite insiders and outsiders, and how the 'Obama Doctrine' both confirmed a geopolitical vision of American exceptionalism and challenged established notions of US hegemony and world leadership.
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474419765
SKU
V9781474419765
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About Georg Lofflmann
Georg Lofflmann is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He has published in the journals Geopolitics and Critical Studies on Security.
Reviews for American Grand Strategy Under Obama: Competing Discourses
'Lofflmann's sophisticated analysis brings together a wealth of empirical material with a theoretical framework that is persuasive and insightful. As a study of how to study grand strategy, it is unmatched. In the forest of materials on the inner workings of American political culture, it stands tall.' - Stuart Croft, University of Warwick