Constructing 21st century U.S. foreign policy: identity, ideology, and America's world role in a new era

This book argues that, in the years since the 9/11 attacks, socially constructed understandings of the identity of the United States and its friends and enemies have played a critical role in determining the course of U.S. foreign policy, in particular the Bush administration's choices with regard to the war on Iraq. INDICE: Introduction: International Relations Theory and U.S. Foreign Policy in a New Era - Theory and History - Identity and Ideology in the War on Terror - 'With Us or Against Us': Constructing America, its Enemies and the World- Identity and Ideology in the Policy Process: Individual and Social Psychology in the Bush Administration - Policy Consequences of Identity and Ideology -Conclusion - Endnotes

• ISBN: 978-0-230-60776-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 316
• Fecha Publicación: 11/08/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés