Beschreibung:
This timely study analyses the ways in which competing ideologies and cultural narratives have influenced the Obama administration's decision-making on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, situating these decisions within the broader history of American foreign policy.
This timely study analyses the ways in which competing ideologies and cultural narratives have influenced the Obama administration's decision-making on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, situating these decisions within the broader history of American foreign policy.
1. Good, Safe, Strong: Obama and the Impossible Reconciliation 2. Obama and Iraq: the 'Dumb' War 3. Afghanistan, Escalation and the 'Good War' 4. Afghan 'Good Enough' 5. The Libya Exception 6. Syria and the Dilemmas of Intervention Conclusion