This book analyzes the transformations and consistencies of American leadership during the past few years and situates recent American foreign policy in a longer time frame, following the 2020 presidential election and after a full year of the Biden Administration. This longer and broader view by European and American academics and experts considers both shifting American policies, notably during Trump's presidency, and underlying trends that have often gone ignored compared to the more dramatic antics of the 45th president. It helps decode recent American policy and permits us to consider possible new directions and likely continuities under Democratic leadership.
Author(s): Michael Stricof; Isabelle Vagnoux (redactors)
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: U.S. Leadership in Uncetaiinless times
Pages: 352
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1 Introduction 1
Isabelle Vagnoux and Michael Stricof
2 Liberal Internationalism and U.S. Leadership 17
Tony Smith
3 “We Will Remain a Pacific Power”: America’s
Self-Proclaimed Destiny in the Asia–Pacific Region 29
Robert J. McMahon
4 The United States and the Middle East: Playing Alice
in Wonderland’s Croquet Game 49
Marina Ottaway
5 What is Left of U.S. Leadership in the Americas? 67
Isabelle Vagnoux
6 Fiscal and Monetary Policy and U.S. Leadership:
A Historical Perspective 89
Robert Boyer
7 Competing for Leadership: Europe’s Choices
in the Sino-American Geo-Economic Rivalry 113
Josef Braml
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vi CONTENTS
8 Technological Leader, Regulatory Laggard?
Washington and the Shifting Governance of Digital
Trade 133
Jean-Baptiste Velut
9 The Limitations of U.S. Climate Leadership: A Realist
Perspective 155
Jean-Daniel Collomb
10 Who Recognizes? U.S. Nuclear Diplomacy
and the Conferral of Legitimacy 173
Sidra Hamidi
11 Defining Strategy and Maintaining Allies for Great
Power Competition: Independent Leadership
in the Department of Defense 193
Michael Stricof
12 Prepping for Long-Term Competition? U.S.
Leadership in Cyberspace from Trump to Biden 213
Frédérick Douzet and Stéphane Taillat
Index 235
