Löfflmann, Georg (2017) American grand strategy under Obama : competing discourses. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474419765

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Abstract

A revisionary account of the challenges posed to America’s global primacy by competing visions of grand strategy

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 Löfflmann 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.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	E History America > E151 United States (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-2017, United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:	Edinburgh
ISBN:	9781474419765
Official Date:	July 2017
Dates:	Date Event July 2017 Published
Number of Pages:	224
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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