TY - BOOK AU - Henriksen,Thomas H. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Cycles in US Foreign Policy since the Cold War T2 - American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century SN - 9783319486406 AV - JK1-9993 U1 - 320.973 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - United States—Politics and government KW - International relations KW - World politics KW - Peace KW - Politics and war KW - US Politics KW - Foreign Policy KW - Political History KW - Conflict Studies KW - Military and Defence Studies N1 - Introduction -- George Herbert Walker Bush: A Disorderly World Put Right -- George H.W. Bush: Interventionism Unbound -- William Jefferson Clinton: The Post-Cold War’s Inward Look -- Bill Clinton and Two Reluctant Interventions into the Balkans -- George Walker Bush and the International Outreach -- George W. Bush’s Overstretch Abroad -- Barack Hussein Obama and the New Retrenchment -- Barack Obama: A Foreign Policy of Disengagement -- Observations on the Cycles in U.S. Foreign Policy.; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - This book describes how American international policy alternates between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs. These cycles provide a unique way to understand, assess, and describe fluctuations in America’s involvement or non-involvement overseas. In addition to its basic thesis, the book presents a fair-minded account of four presidents’ foreign policies in the post-Cold War period: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. It suggests recurring sources of cyclical change, along with implications for the future. An engaged or involved foreign policy entails the use of military power and diplomatic pressure against other powers to secure American ends. A disengaged or noninvolved policy relies on normal economic and political interaction with other states, which seeks to disassociate from entanglements UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48640-6 ER -