American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks write by Bastiaan Van Apeldoorn. This book was released on 2015-10-23. American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a novel analysis of how US grand strategy has evolved from the end of the Cold War to the present, offering an integrated analysis of both continuity and change. The post-Cold War American grand strategy has continued to be oriented to securing an ‘open door’ to US capital around the globe. This book will show that the three different administrations that have been in office in the post-Cold War era have pursued this goal with varying means: from Clinton’s promotion of neoliberal globalization to Bush’s ‘war on terror’ and Obama’s search to maintain US primacy in the face of a declining economy and a rising Asia. In seeking to make sense of both these strong continuities and these significant variations the book takes as its point of departure the social sources of grand strategy (making), with the aim to relate state (public) power to social (private) power. While developing its own theoretical framework to make sense of the evolution of US grand strategy, it offers a rich and rigorous empirical analysis based on extensive primary data that have been collected over the past years. It draws on a unique data-set that consists of extensive biographical data of 30 cabinet members and other senior foreign policy officials of each of the past three administrations of Clinton, G.W. Bush and Obama. This book is of great use to specialists in International Relations – within International Political Economy, International Security and Foreign Policy Analysis, as well as students of US Politics.
Trump and the Remaking of American Grand Strategy
Trump and the Remaking of American Grand Strategy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trump and the Remaking of American Grand Strategy write by Bastiaan van Apeldoorn. This book was released on 2023-08-28. Trump and the Remaking of American Grand Strategy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a comprehensive explanatory account of Trump's foreign policy by assessing its nature, determining the extent to which it broke with the policy of preceding presidencies, and explaining how this shift came about. We argue that Trump has succeeded in remaking America’s grand strategy by unmaking its long-standing strategy of what we call Open Door Globalism, a strategy of economic expansionism through the promotion of open markets across the globe and its institutionalization into a US-led liberal world order. Trump has broken with Open Door Globalism in probably lasting ways by adopting an outlook and strategy of neo-mercantilist economic nationalism based upon an ‘America First’ redefinition of US sovereignty and national interests. We explain this Trumpian shift in US foreign policy by focusing on the social sources of Trump’s foreign policy-making elite’s agency, analysing it both in terms of foreign policy-makers’ embeddedness in elite networks and within the changing global and domestic context. The latter, coupled with a crisis of established elite power, also indicates why Biden has not returned to Open Door Globalism but doubled down on some aspects of the Trumpian economic nationalist break.
Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States
Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States write by Bamo Nouri. This book was released on 2021-09-09. Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book locates US elites as members of corporate elite networks and drivers of corporate elite interests, arguing that studying the social sources of US power plays an important part in understanding the nature of their decisions in US foreign policy. Exploring the decisions taken by American elites on the Iraq War, the author argues that the decisions and agendas US elites pursued in Iraq were driven by corporate elite interests – embedded in them as individuals and in groups through the corporate elite networks they were rooted in – which they prioritised, using democracy promotion as a cover up. Using elite theory, membership network analysis and content analysis, this book explains who these elites were, how their backgrounds and social influences impacted their world-views, and what this looked like in a detailed exploration of their decision-making on the ground in Iraq. Nouri examines the nature of US power, what drives it, what it looks like and its legacies. This volume provides valuable understandings and lessons to scholars and students of International Relations studying democracy, US foreign policy, post-colonialism, elite theory, US imperialism, neoliberalism, orientalism, Iraqi politics, and the making of the Iraq constitution.
Obama and the World
Obama and the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Obama and the World write by Inderjeet Parmar. This book was released on 2014-04-16. Obama and the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This significantly revised, updated and extended second edition of New Directions in US Foreign Policy retains the strongest aspects of its original structure but adds a comprehensive account of the latest theoretical perspectives, the key actors and issues, and new policy directions. Offering a detailed and systematic outline of the field, this text: Explains how international relations theories such as realism, liberalism and constructivism can help us to interpret US foreign policy under President Obama Examines the key influential actors shaping foreign policy, from political parties and think tanks to religious groups and public opinion Explores the most important new policy directions under the Obama administration from the Arab Spring and the rise of China to African policy and multilateralism Supplies succinct presentation of relevant case material, and provides recommendations for further reading and web sources for pursuing future research. Written by a distinguished line-up of contributors actively engaged in original research on the topics covered, and featuring twelve brand new chapters, this text provides a unique platform for rigorous debate over the contentious issues that surround US foreign policy. This wide-ranging text is essential reading for all students and scholars of US foreign policy.
Handbook on Think Tanks in Public Policy
Handbook on Think Tanks in Public Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook on Think Tanks in Public Policy write by Donald E. Abelson. This book was released on 2021-03-26. Handbook on Think Tanks in Public Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the role, function and perceived impact of policy research-oriented institutions in North America, Europe and beyond. Over 20 international scholars explore the diverse and eclectic world of think tanks to reveal their structure, governance and unique position in occupying a critical space on the public-policy landscape.
