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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 Lo...
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Edinburgh University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Edinburgh : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-258) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781474419765 1474419763 9781474445733 147444573X |
| Index Number: | E907 |
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D871.29 D771.29 |
| Call Number: | D771.29/L828 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Reimagining grand strategy -- Filming hegemony : Hollywood and the Manichean script of geopolitics -- Competing visions for America : popular discourses of grand strategy on The New York Times best-sellers list -- The American grand strategy debate in international relations -- Think tanks and the Washington consensus on hegemony -- Strategic vision : national security, defense policy, and the geopolitics of military pre-eminence -- The 'Obama doctrine' : vision for change? -- Conclusion. |