U.S. foreign policy under Obama would be defined by international and domestic pressures that shook the rules-based international order. In response to an increasingly multipolar system, Obama transitioned foreign policy away from U.S. hegemony toward a more scaled-back role that would culminate in the rise of Trump and America First.

• Cover
• Obama and the Emergence of a Multipolar World Order
• Obama and the Emergence of a Multipolar World Order: Redefining U.S. Foreign Policy
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Structure, Power, and Actors in Foreign Policy
  • The International System and Its Impact on Foreign Policy
  • Domestic Political Considerations
  • Internal Dynamics, International-Domestic Interactions, and Foreign Policy
• Chapter 2
• Breaking Away from the International Order
  • U.S. Foreign Policy in the Evolving International Order
  • Under Pressure: Obama, Foreign Policy, and Crises
  • U.S. Defense Capabilities and Alliances
  • The Cost of War
  • China and Russia
• Chapter 3
• NATO and Europe
  • The Contemporary European Security Order
  • The Reset and Its Consequences
  • NATO
  • Terrorism and Instability in the Middle East
  • The Economic Landscape
  • Weakening of the Transatlantic Order
• Chapter 4
• Asia and the Pacific
  • America’s Network of Asia-Pacific Alliances and Relationships
  • The Pacific Century and the Rise of China
  • China in the Middle East
  • The Strategic Calculus: It’s Complicated
  • Maintaining the Status Quo
• Chapter 5
• The Middle East
  • Offshoring the Middle East
  • U.S. Domestic Energy Extraction
  • Intervention by Other Military Means
  • Arab Spring
  • Syrian Civil War
  • The Islamic State
  • Iran
  • Obama’s Retrenchment
• Chapter 6
• Nation-Building at Home and America First
  • Emerging Economies
  • Geopolitical Uncertainty and Tension
  • Decline of Middle-Class America
  • The Obama-Trump Doctrine
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author