The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy

by David Skidmore

Book Overview

The pattern of multilateral engagement and unilateral retrenchment in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years presents a puzzle. What accounts for the unilateralist turn? Is it a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush administration? What then of the disengagement evident earlier during Clinton's presidency, or its continuation under Obama? Was the U.S. investment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415885396
• ISBN13: 9780415885393
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"