National security under the Obama administration
By: edited by Bahram M. Rajaee and Mark J. Miller
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780230116825
Subjects: National security; Military policy; Foreign relations
Description: Despite widespread expectations for change, there is more continuity than discontinuity in United States national security policy under President Obama. This book brings together experts from both in and outside the United States to assess continuities and changes in recent national policy.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bahram M. Rajaee and Mark J. Miller; title: Obama's grand strategy agenda and constraints / Stuart Kaufman; title: The Somalia syndrome and U.S. national security from Bush to Obama / Robert Patman and Andreas Reitzig; title: American defense policy after the cold war a rational construction or a consequence of an extensive lobby? / Juliano Cortinhas; title: Obama's intelligence policy : meeting new challenges / Charlotte Lepri; title: Grand bargain or grand strategy : the Obama administration and Russia policy / Geir Flikke; title: PLA military modernization and Sino-Russian cooperation / Hong-Yi Lien; title: U.S. foreign policy toward Bangladesh : implications of the rise of Islamist terrorism / Shahab Khan; title: Continuity or change in U.S. foreign policy in Africa : a South African perspective / Godfrey Ramuhala; title: Cooperation and discord in South America in the twenty-first century : the consequences of the Colombia-United States military agreement of 2009 / Fabio Sanchez Cabarcas; title: American foreign policy and the continuing struggle against anti-Americanism in the Muslim world / Muqtedar Khan and Sarah Jane Chehab; title: Formulating war aims in a protracted war environment : lessons for U.S. national security policy / German Frechero; title: Transition to the endgame : the challenge of U.S. policy toward Afghanistan / Dan Green.