Obama, US Foreign Policy and the Dilemmas of Intervention

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.

Autorentext

David Fitzgerald is Lecturer in International Politics in University College Cork, Ireland and specializes in the history of counterinsurgency and the history of American military culture.

David Ryan is Chair of Modern History in University College Cork, Ireland and has published extensively on contemporary history and US foreign policy concentrating on the interventions in the post-Vietnam era.

Inhalt

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