1st Edition
Obama's Foreign Policy Ending the War on Terror
Introduction: Why is change so hard? Continuity in American foreign policy from Bush to Obama Jack Holland 1. Obama’s War on Terrorism in rhetoric and practice Trevor McCrisken 2. US decline and systemic constraint Adam Quinn 3. Structural shifts and strategic change: From the War on Terror to the pivot to Asia Nicholas Kitchen 4. A Constructivist-Institutionalist analysis of democracy promotion under Bush and Obama Oz Hassan 5. The War on Terror as hegemonic discourse: Institutionalisation, interests and the sedimentation of counterterrorism ideology Richard Jackson 6. Continuity we can believe in: Escaping the War on Terror Michelle Bentley 7. Affective investment in the War on Terror Ty Solomon 8. US nuclear weapons policy from Bush to Obama Andrew Futter 9. Drones and the issue of continuity in America’s Pakistan policy under Obama Wali Aslam 10. Interventionism in US foreign policy from Bush to Obama Mike Aaronson 11. Thinking about time in US foreign policy and its study Lee Jarvis Conclusion: Conceptualising change and continuity in US foreign policy Jack Holland and Michelle Bentley
Biography
Dr Michelle Bentley is a Researcher at the University of Southampton. She specialises in US foreign policy and international security, especially where this relates to the construction of, and policy responses to, extreme threats. In particular, she is interested in weapons of mass destruction and mass fatality terrorism.
Dr Jack Holland is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Surrey. His research broadly focuses on foreign and security policy. In particular his expertise lies in American, British and Australian foreign policy, especially during the ‘War on Terror’. He is also interested in critical approaches in International Relations, such as constructivism.
