Detente or Decline? Obama's Grand Strategy in a World of Crisis
As candidate for President, Barack Obama pledged to renew American leadership in the world in the wake of the ‘tragically misguided' thinking of the Bush administration.1 Yet the strategic issues that animated the candidate were subsumed by the financial crisis that was ultimately crucial in handing victory to Obama, so that upon assuming office the world that his predecessor had bequeathed to him was one of a far more profound crisis of American ideology and power than simply the fallout from the Bush administration's war on terror. Still, the National Security Strategy issued by the administration in May 2010 was explicitly “focused on renewing American leadership”
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2010
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Authors: | Kitchen, Nicholas |
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[2010]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Welt | World | Wirtschaftskrise | Economic crisis | Finanzkrise | Financial crisis |
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