- More praise for <i>US Foreign Policy</i>
- Acknowledgements
- New to this edition
- About the editors
- About the contributors
- Guided tour of textbook features
- Guided tour of online resources
- Maps
- 1. Introduction: US foreign policy—past, present, and future
- Section 1 Rethinking America
- 2. Theories of US foreign policy
- 3. American exceptionalism
- Section 2 Historical Contexts
- 4. The US rise to world power, 1776–1945
- 5. The economic rise of a superpower: from Washington to Trump
- 6. American foreign policy during the Cold War
- 7. America in the 1990s: searching for purpose
- 8. The twenty-first century and smart power
- Section 3 Institutions and Processes
- 9. Domestic influences on foreign policy making
- 10. Regional shifts and US foreign policy
- 11. Media and US foreign policy
- Section 4 The United States and the World
- 12. US foreign policy in the Middle East
- 13. The USA and the EU
- 14. US foreign policy in Russia
- 15. US foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific
- 16. US foreign policy in Latin America
- 17. US foreign policy in Africa
- Section 5 Key Issues
- 18. Global terrorism
- 19. Religion
- 20. Gender
- 21. Global environment
- Section 6 Futures and Scenarios
- 22. The American liberal order: from creation to crisis
- 23. Drifting apart? The emerging end of the transatlantic partnership
- 24. The future of US foreign policy
- 25. US decline or primacy? A debate
- References
- Index
(p. 141) 10. Regional shifts and US foreign policy
- Chapter:
- (p. 141) 10. Regional shifts and US foreign policy
- Author(s):
Peter Trubowitz
- DOI:
- 10.1093/hepl/9780198707578.003.0010
This chapter examines the impact of regional shifts on the making of US foreign policy. One of the most distinctive features of American politics is regionally based political competition and conflict. Scholars argue that regionalism in American politics is rooted in the geographically uneven nature of economic growth and development. The chapter first revisits debates over American foreign policy in the 1890s, the 1930s, and the current era, focusing on issues such as those relating to expansionism and hegemony, internationalism, militarism, and the disagreement between ‘red America’ and ‘blue America’ over foreign policy matters. It then explains how regional diversity causes tension and conflict in foreign policy and argues that conflicts over the purposes of American power, as well as the constitutional authority to exercise it, stem from the distribution of wealth and power in American society among coalitions with divergent interests and claims on the federal government’s resources.
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- More praise for <i>US Foreign Policy</i>
- Acknowledgements
- New to this edition
- About the editors
- About the contributors
- Guided tour of textbook features
- Guided tour of online resources
- Maps
- 1. Introduction: US foreign policy—past, present, and future
- Section 1 Rethinking America
- 2. Theories of US foreign policy
- 3. American exceptionalism
- Section 2 Historical Contexts
- 4. The US rise to world power, 1776–1945
- 5. The economic rise of a superpower: from Washington to Trump
- 6. American foreign policy during the Cold War
- 7. America in the 1990s: searching for purpose
- 8. The twenty-first century and smart power
- Section 3 Institutions and Processes
- 9. Domestic influences on foreign policy making
- 10. Regional shifts and US foreign policy
- 11. Media and US foreign policy
- Section 4 The United States and the World
- 12. US foreign policy in the Middle East
- 13. The USA and the EU
- 14. US foreign policy in Russia
- 15. US foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific
- 16. US foreign policy in Latin America
- 17. US foreign policy in Africa
- Section 5 Key Issues
- 18. Global terrorism
- 19. Religion
- 20. Gender
- 21. Global environment
- Section 6 Futures and Scenarios
- 22. The American liberal order: from creation to crisis
- 23. Drifting apart? The emerging end of the transatlantic partnership
- 24. The future of US foreign policy
- 25. US decline or primacy? A debate
- References
- Index