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This book analyzes the impact of US foreign policy under Obama on strategic and political developments in a several regions and looks at perceptions towards the US in China, Korea, Russia, India, Latin America and particularly in the Middle East.
List of contents
Introduction, Jonathan Rynhold and Efraim Inbar PART I: America Today 1. Lessons from Fifteen Years of War, Eliot Cohen 2. The American Foreign Policy Debate: Déjà Vu?, Henry Nau 3. Obama: The Reluctant Realist, Steven David 4. Public Opinion and Obama’s Foreign Policy, Eytan Gilboa PART II: Regional Perceptions 5. America’s Standing in China: Chinese Attitudes towards the United States, Jian Wang 6. Seoul-Washington Alliance: The Beginning of Independence?, Alon Levkowitz 7. Change and Continuity in Russian Perceptions of the Unites States, Dima Adamsky 8. India’s Perspective of American Political Leadership and Foreign Policy, Uday Bhaskar 9. US-Latin American Relations and the Role of the United States in the World: The View from Latin America, Arie Kacowicz PART III: The Middle East 10. Obama and the Middle East: Illusions and Delusions, Efraim Karsh 11. US Counter-Proliferation Policy: The Case of Iran, Emily Landau 12. Erdoğan’s Turkey and Obama’s America, Efrat Aviv 13.US-Egyptian Relations, Yehuda Blanga 14. Israeli Attitudes to the Obama Administration, Yael Bloch-Elkon amd Jonathan Rynhold 15. The Impact of a Transformed US Global Stance on Israel’s National Security Strategy, Shmuel Sandler
About the author
Efraim Inbar is Professor in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Director of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, Israel. He is author/editor of numerous titles, including most recently The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security: Domestic and Regional Ramifications (Routledge, 2013).
Jonathan Rynhold is Senior Lecturer of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Director of the Argov Center for the Study of Israel and the Jewish People, and a senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. He is author of The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture (2015).
Summary
This book analyzes the impact of US foreign policy under Obama on strategic and political developments in a several regions and looks at perceptions towards the US in China, Korea, Russia, India, Latin America and particularly in the Middle East.
