American Grand Strategy Under Obama: Competing Discourses

This book explores how rivalling discourses of American grand strategy reveal a fractured consensus of geopolitical identity and national security under President Obama. This conflict manifested in divergent elite visions of liberal hegemony, cooperative engagement and unilateral restraint.

Georg Löfflmann examines the identity conflict within the Washington foreign policy establishment, between elite insiders and outsiders, and how the 'Obama Doctrine' both confirmed a geopolitical vision of American exceptionalism and challenged established notions of US hegemony and world leadership.

Author: Georg Löfflmann
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/26/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781474445733
ISBN10: 147444573X
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | American Government | General
- Political Science | International Relations | General
- Political Science | Security (National & International)

About the Author

Georg Löfflmann is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He has published in the journals Geopolitics and Critical Studies on Security. His first monograph was published in German: German Security Policy between Multilateralisms and Reticence--The Mission of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan (Diplomica, 2008).