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This collection offers a detailed assessment of the varied ways in which President Barack Obama was received by audiences beyond America''s borders and assesses what effect this had on his foreign policy initiatives. The book approaches international perceptions of President Obama through specific case study examinations of his most significant state visits, offering original insights into Obama''s reception in Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa. Chapters on Europe explore the complex relationship that Obama shared with both British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Northern Ireland''s fragile executive. The papal visit is also examined as well as Obama''s image in Russia, which explores the varied ways in which state-controlled media attempted to portray Obama as an enemy of Russia. Chapters on the Middle East address the various shifts that occurred in America''s relationship with Iran under Obama, Israeli hostilities towards Obama, and Turkey''s more assertive foreign policy. Other contributions include analysis of Obama''s visits to Ghana and Kenya, providing important insights into US-Africa relations under his administration and Obama''s historic visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan. Together, these essays provide a detailed and comprehensive assessment of Obama''s state visits, with much needed insight into how the perceptions of Obama, formed by these visits, affected the US'' diplomatic and foreign policy initiatives under his administration.>
List of contents
Introduction
Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of LondonRachel Pistol, King's College London1. Obama, Britain and the Special Relationship
Clive Webb, University of Sussex2. President Barack Obama and the Northern Ireland Executive
Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London3. The Pope Comes Calling: The Papal Visit of 2015 as Public Diplomacy and Obama's Engagement for Strategic Communication
Aidan Moir, University of Windsor4. The image of Barack Obama in the state-controlled media in Russia
Marcin Skladanowski, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin5. "Israel's Obama Problem - and Ours": Importing American Neoconservatism to Israel, Duty-Free
Yoav Fromer, Tel Aviv University6. Remote Warfare and the Global Perception of Obama's Counterterrorism Policy
Tom Watts, Royal Holloway, University of London7. Barack Obama's historic visit to Ghana, 2009
De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway, University of Cape CoastEric Osei Prempeh, University of Cape Coast8. "You've Been Lost": The Personal and International Dynamics of President Barack Obama's Presidential State Visit to Kenya
C. Scott Maravilla, Washington College of Law9. A Promise Fulfilled? Obama and Cuba
Laura Smith, University of Oxford10. "Their souls speak to us": 2016 and the politics of remembrance between the US and Japan
Rachel Pistol, King's College London11. Obama in China
Mara Oliva, University of Reading
About the author
Dawn-Marie Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in Modern American History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is the author of
Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam (2014),
The Nation of Islam (2016) and
New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam (2017).
Rachel Pistol is a Researcher at King's College London, UK, and is part of the management team for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. She is the author of
Internment During the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA (2017) as well as articles published in
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Comparative American Studies and
Patterns of Prejudice.
