Buch(elektronisch)2013

Understanding American Power: The Changing World of US Foreign Policy

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Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: American Power in the World -- Debates about the future of American power -- The argument and organization of the book -- 1 The Rise of American Power -- The state, power and foreign policy: 1776-1945 -- The 'national security state' -- The Cold War and American power -- International order in the post-Cold War world -- The first Obama Administration -- Conclusion -- 2 American Power and International Relations -- Wielding American power -- What is power in international relations? -- Competing conceptions of American power -- The sources of power -- Conclusion -- 3 The Power of the State and the Foreign Policy Process -- The power of the American state: contexts of US power -- The powers of Congress and President over foreign policy -- Congressional-executive branch relations -- The Foreign Policy Bureacracy -- Societal influences on foreign policy-making -- Conclusion -- 4 The Evolution of Military Power: An American Way of War? -- The development of military power -- The Cold War and the military establishment -- Military power and power projection -- Civil-military relations and the 'American way of war' -- The future of US military power -- 5 The Rise (and Fall?) of American Economic Power -- US economic power in perspective -- The development of economic power -- National political economy and the national interest -- American leadership and hegemony -- Competition, crisis and the future of US capitalism -- Conclusion -- 6 The Power of American Values: Ideology and Identity in American Foreign Policy -- Ideology in American life -- Liberalism, republicanism and exceptionalism -- Exceptionalist nationalism and American power -- Conclusion: the future of ideological power -- 7 Responses to American Power -- Conceptualizing resistance to US power.