After Bush :The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy

Publication subTitle :The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy

Author: Timothy J. Lynch; Robert S. Singh  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2008

E-ISBN: 9780511402609

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521880046

Subject: D8 Diplomacy, International Relations

Keyword: 外交、国际关系

Language: ENG

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After Bush

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The foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration has won few admirers, and many anticipate that his successor will repudiate the actions of the past eight years. In their provocative account Lynch and Singh argue that Bush's policy should be placed within the mainstream of the American foreign policy tradition. Further, they suggest that there will, and should, be continuity in US foreign policy from his presidency to those of his successors. Providing a positive audit of the war on terror (which they contend should be understood as a Second Cold War) they maintain that the Bush doctrine has been consistent with past policy at times of war and that the key elements of Bush's grand strategy will continue to shape America's approach in the future. Above all, they predict that his successors will pursue the war against Islamist terror with similar dedication.

Chapter

Trade as the American foreign policy ideology

Moralism-legalism

Security = markets

‘A decent respect to the opinions of mankind’?

Conclusion

2 The constitution of American national security

War and the Constitution

War powers

Structural thesis

The ‘Living Constitution’

Presidential primacy in the national security constitution: history, form, and functionality

The War Powers Resolution

Bush and the national security constitution

Conclusion

3 The Second Cold War on Islamist terror: negative audits

The conservative/realist audit

Power as limits, balance as inevitable?

Realism and the new power of popularity

The left-liberal audit

Stability before freedom

The ‘old’ European/Venusian audit

We are all Americans?

Conclusion

4 The Second Cold War on Islamist terror: a positive audit

The war on terror as a war on capacity

The war at home

Institutional reformation is working

Civil liberties hold

US vs. UK counterterrorism

The war abroad

Hard power and the Rumsfeld metric

Hypothesis 1: 9/11 was a miscalculation on al Qaeda’s part

Hypothesis 2: There are no terrorists in the United States and only a few abroad

Hypothesis 3: The war on terror is working

The three Ts nexus

Democratic enlargement: counterterrorism via soft power

‘Who “won” Libya?’

Has Pyongyang been won?

Who will lose Pakistan?

How much does the war on terror cost?

Does freedom have an accountant?

Conclusion

5 Iraq: Vietnam in the sand?

Iraq: a necessary choice

1. Containment and deterrence: Saddam as a rational actor

2. Sanctions

3. WMD and intelligence

4. Desert Storm Mark II

5. Preventive War

Occupying Iraq: the lessons of Mesopotamia

1. Insufficient troops

2. Political failure

3. State-building

4. Maintaining public opinion at home and abroad

Conclusion

6 The Middle East: reformation or Armageddon

Power, faith, and fantasies

Striking the ‘Great Satan’: sympathy for the devil

Toward a new Middle East?

Recommendations: recalibrating Mid-East policy

1. Terrorism

2. Israel and Palestine

3. Iran

4. Saudi Arabia

5. Syria

6. Education, economic development, and reform

7. Afghanistan and Pakistan

Conclusion

7 Friends and foes after Bush

International organizations

NATO

United Nations

Old Europe vs. new Europe

France and Germany

Russia

China

An English-speaking alliance?

United Kingdom

Australia

India

Conclusion

8 The emerging consensus at home and abroad

Clear, present and growing dangers

American primacy: are we all multipolar now?

Narrow realists, adjectival realists and ineffectual internationalists: ‘coalitions of the unwilling and the unable’

Politics at the desert’s edge

Exceptional America

Conclusion

Conclusion: The case for continuity

Notes

Introduction: winning the second cold war

1. bush and the american foreign policy tradition

2. The constitution of american national security

3. The second cold war on islamist terror: negative audits

4. The second cold war on islamist terror: a positive audit

5. Iraq: vietnam in the sand?

6. The middle east: reformation or armageddon

7. Friends and foes after bush

8. The emerging consensus at home and abroad

Conclusion: the case for continuity

Bibliography

1. Books

2. Journals and newspapers

3. Speeches

4. Court cases

5. Documents, reports, and other media

Index

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