Dangerous Doctrine: How Obama's Grand Strategy Weakened America
Robert G. Kaufman
Abstract
The main argument is that President Obama’s foreign and national security policy reflects a coherent set of assumptions and premises constituting a Doctrine. The book argues further that the Obama Doctrine dangerously repudiates the legacy of robust internationalism that has successfully guided American foreign policy since World War II. It argues the Obama Doctrine has made matters significantly worse in the world’s three most important geopolitical regions: Europe; the Middle East, and East Asia. It advocates some version of moral democratic realism, most characteristic of the presidencies o ... More
Keywords: Obama Doctrine, engagement, retrenchment, robust internationalism, moral democratic realism, liberal multilateralism, neorealism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780813167206 |
| Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813167206.001.0001 |
