United States in the Indo-Pacific - Obama''s Legacy and the Trump Transition

This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump.

List of contents

Introduction: The United States in the Asia and Indo-Pacifics - Inderjeet Parmar

Part I: Obama's legacy in Asia and the Pacific
1 US imperial hegemony in the American Pacific - Oliver Turner
2 Humanitarian hawk meets rising dragon: Obama's legacy in US China Policy - Peter Gries
3 The Obama administration and India - Christopher K. Colley and Sumit Ganguly
4 Obama and Japan: An endangered legacy - Matteo Dian
5 Obama, Trump, and North Korea - Bruce Cumings
6 US and Australia: Deepening ties and securitising cyberspace - Maryanne Kelton and Zac Rogers
7 Obama's legacy in US-ASEAN relations: Promises and perils - Prashanth Parameswaran
8 The Obama administration and the East Asia Summit: Exception, not transformation - Malcolm Cook

Part II: The US in Asia and the Pacific under Trump
9 Obama, Trump and US politics and diplomacy towards Asia - Robert G. Sutter
10 Security policy in Asia from Obama to Trump: Autopilot, neglect or worse? - Nick Bisley
11 A grand strategic transition? Obama, Trump, and the Asia Pacific political economy - Mike Mastanduno

Part III: From Obama to Trump in Asia and the Pacific: The practitioners' view
12 From Obama to Trump, and beyond: Washington's painful search for a credible China policy - Borje Ljunggren
13 Multilateralism to transactionalism: America and Trump in the Asia Pacific - Ketan Patel and Christian Hansmeyer
14 Obama and Trump's marine machoism in the Indo-Pacific - Atul Bhardwaj
Conclusion: Legacies and Transitions in the twenty first century Indo-Pacific - Oliver Turner and Inderjeet Parmar

About the author

Oliver Turner is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh

Inderjeet Parmar is Professor of International Politics at City, University of London

Summary

This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Inderjeet Parmar, Oliver Parmar Turner
• Assisted by: Inderjeet Parmar (Editor), Oliver Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781526135018
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3501-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Shakespeare in Performance; Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Diplomatie, Asien, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian