{"product_id":"dangerous-doctrine-how-obamas-grand-strategy-weakened-america-9780813167206","title":"Dangerous Doctrine: How Obama's Grand Strategy Weakened America","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan  President Barack Obama came to office as a politician who emphasized conviction rather than consensus. During his 2008 presidential campaign  he pledged to transform the role of the United States abroad. His ambitious foreign policy goals included a global climate treaty  the peaceful withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan  and a new relationship with Iran. Throughout Obamas tenure  pundits and scholars have offered competing interpretations of his \"grand strategy \" while others have maintained that his policies were incoherent or  at best  ad hoc.  In Dangerous Doctrine  political scientist Robert G. Kaufman argues that the forty-fourth president has indeed articulated a clear  consistent national security policy and has pursued it with remarkable fidelity. Yet Kaufman contends that President Obama has imprudently abandoned the muscular internationalism that has marked US foreign policy since the end of World War II. Drawing on international relations theory and American diplomatic history  Kaufman presents a robust critique of the Obama doctrine as he situates the presidents use of power within the traditions of American strategic practice.  Focusing on the pivotal regions of Europe  the Middle East  and Asia  this provocative study demonstrates how current executive branch leadership threatens Americas role as a superpower  weakening its ability to spread democracy and counter threats to geopolitical order in increasingly unstable times. Kaufman proposes a return to the grand strategy of moral democratic realism  as practiced by presidents such as Harry S. Truman  Ronald Reagan  and George W. Bush  with the hope of reestablishing the United States as the worlds dominant power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647586230325,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813167205","price":34.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813167206.jpg?v=1781694368","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dangerous-doctrine-how-obamas-grand-strategy-weakened-america-9780813167206","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}