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From the Obama doctrine to America first : the erosion of the Washington consensus on grand strategy

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Löfflmann, Georg (2020) From the Obama doctrine to America first : the erosion of the Washington consensus on grand strategy. International Politics, 57 . pp. 588-605. doi:10.1057/s41311-019-00172-0

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Abstract

This article explores the social construction of American grand strategy as nexus of identity and national security. The article first highlights how the identity construct of American exceptionalism has underwritten a grand strategy of global leadership and military interventionism since the end of the Cold War, constituting liberal hegemony as dominant position within the bipartisan US foreign policy establishment. The article then explores the political impact of counter-hegemonic discourses of restraint and offshore balancing under the Obama presidency. It argues that in ‘leading from behind’ the Obama Doctrine represented a moderate intra-elite challenge to the status quo. Obama’s use of exceptionalist rhetoric to legitimate restraint simultaneously exposed the political limits of this strategic paradigm shift, which oscillated between continuity and change. Finally, the article examines Trump’s ‘America First’ stance, concluding that its combination of nationalism, nativism, and protectionism has resulted in the erosion of the Washington consensus on liberal hegemony.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: J Political Science > JZ International relations
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Foreign relations -- United States, Exceptionalism -- Political aspects -- United States, Obama, Barack, Trump, Donald, 1946-
Journal or Publication Title: International Politics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
ISSN: 1384-5748
Official Date: August 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
August 2020Published
20 February 2019Available
26 January 2019Accepted
Volume: 57
Page Range: pp. 588-605
DOI: 10.1057/s41311-019-00172-0
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in International Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Löfflmann, G. Int Polit (2019). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-019-00172-0 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-019-00172-0
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RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
ECF-2017-545Leverhulme Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275

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