The Shadowboxer: The Obama Administration and Foreign Policy Grand Strategy
| Autor: | Kevin J. Lasher, Christine Sixta Rinehart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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021110 strategic
defence & security studies Internationalism (politics) Sociology and Political Science Grand strategy media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Doctrine 02 engineering and technology Isolationism Multilateralism 050601 international relations 0506 political science Politics Foreign policy Law Political Science and International Relations Terrorism Sociology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Politics & Policy. 44:850-888 |
| ISSN: | 1555-5623 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/polp.12175 |
| Popis: | President Obama's foreign policy grand strategy can be described by the terms shadowboxing or shadowboxer. Shadowboxing is a technique that boxers use to practice, sparring with imaginary opponents or attacking shadows in preparation for the real fight. Similarly, President Obama attacks covert threats but rarely responds to visible or viable threats. Like a practicing boxer, President Obama is fighting the murky shadows while refusing to engage the main stage in the international arena. Obama's foreign policy grand strategy consists of the following five tenets. (1) Modest Retrenchment in Foreign Policy Spending. (2) Rebuilding America's Reputation: The Anti-Thesis of George W. Bush. (3) Multilateralism. (4) Nonintervention and Avoiding “Boots on the Ground.” (5) Assertive Counterterrorism. Related Articles Quinn, Adam. 2007. “The Great Illusion: Chimeras of Isolationism and Realism in Post-Iraq U.S. Foreign Policy.” Politics & Policy 35 (3): 522–547. Haar, Roberta. 2010. “Explaining George W. Bush's Adoption of the Neoconservative Agenda after 9/11.” Politics & Policy 38 (5): 965–990. Farnsworth, Stephen, and S. Robert Lichter. 2013. “An Extended Honeymoon? Coverage of Barack Obama in the New York Times during 2009 and 2010.” Politics & Policy 41 (3): 447–463. Related Media “The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4DJalBPNgc “Inside the Mind of a President.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM8qoXoQhL4 “The New Internationalism: The Case for Restraint – Barry Posen” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGfvVc3UJUo |
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