- 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. 5) Section 1 Rethinking America
This chapter considers some of the competing theories that have been proposed to explain US foreign policy. It first provides an overview of some of the obstacles to constructing a theory of foreign policy before discussing some of the competing theories of US foreign policy, including systemic theories such as defensive realism and offensive realism, theories that accentuate domestic factors like liberalism and Marxism, and a theory that combines systemic and domestic factors, such as neoclassical realism and constructivism. The chapter also revisits the theoretical debate over the origins of the Cold War and concludes by analysing the debate on the most appropriate grand strategy that the United States should follow in the post-Cold War era, with particular emphasis on, primacy, liberal internationalism, and offshore balancing.
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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