Foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration

In his conducted reviews “Sectoral conflict and foreign economic policy”, Jeff Frieden examines the distinctive American domestic characters that played a major role on drafting the U.S foreign policy the period between the year of 1914 to 1940, he claims that the American foreign policy was a collective settlement that are pushed by two groups of bureaucratic actors that are clearly motived by contrastive economic interests. For example, he identified that despite the impressive enthusiasm that the U.S banks and corporation held, there are indeed other voices within the American political institutions that “had little interest in foreign affairs” and therefore afraid of foreign competitions and consequently opposed the export of American capitals:…

history, isolationism has never been an outsider of American foreign strategies. In other word, isolationism methodologies are in fact quite normal in a way that public should not fear or panic at the first glance. First of all, isolationism, just like its reputable counterpart internationalism, has always been a crucial component of American political culture. According to Crothers (2011), the author aimed to find the answers to the swinging nature of U.S. foreign policies between isolationism…

Bush’s presidency, which left President Barack Obama with a war in the Middle East and economic difficulties in the U.S, Obama strived to maintain the U.S.’s global leadership and dominant role at an inexpensive cost. With the help of the National Security Council, Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture, and intelligence agencies. The Obama Administration succeeded in its endeavors to ensure the country's progress and security. The…

that the Bush administration pursued a strand of liberal internationalism in trying to promote liberal ideals throughout the international community. However, catalysed and accentuated by the September 11 attacks, this strand became over-aggressive and Bush’s crusading rhetoric became over bearing. Another speech that reflects…

States’ foreign policy stance in the 21st century indicates that the nation has a national mission of leading the world toward peace, progress, democracy, and freedom. Supporting this mission is an integral ideology known as “American Creed” whose roots are extremely old (Holland, 2013). This ideology is instilled into American Children through agents of socialization such as the family, church, school, and media among others. Ideally, the “American Creed” is the backbone of American civil…

Foreign policy is an incredibly important part of any President’s role. Most countries in today’s society make use of global trade and international relationships to bolster the economy, and that is especially true for a superpower like the United States. Without a good foreign policy, not only will a country begin to fall behind in terms of technological advances, the citizens faith in the country will begin to falter. The foreign policy of the Barack Obama Administration has been scrutinized…

Mandelbaum believes that U.S foreign Policy has failed since the end of the cold war through different factors. Mandelbaum makes a strong case ideologically crusading into regime change, which invariably fails regardless of how virtuous the intent is. We first need to define what foreign policy and the cold war is in order to evaluate Mandelbaum and whether he thinks U.S. foreign policy has failed or not. He mentions that the years of 1991-2014 were very distinct from any previous period in…

they must do what their administration has promised to do for the people they will be serving. President Bill Clinton became the 42nd president of the US States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was affiliated with the democratic party. Same as Barack Obama, who had taken office as the 44th president and is still serving. Both presidents had served two terms and made major changes in the way America is today. Through a careful comparison and contrast of the both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton’s…

This term ‘Rogue States’ are primarily associated with the Clinton administration. Rogue States (or ‘backlash’ states) are those “recalcitrant and outlaw states that not only choose to remain outside the family of nations but also assault it’s basic values” (Lake 1994:45). However, R Looney (2009:264) goes on to state that “despite the absence of any evidence, he [Lake] contended that the rogue states were developing ties among themselves allegedly to curb the “global trend to which they seem…

With January 20th, 2017 having passed, The United States stands at point capable of reflecting upon the entirety of the Obama presidency. The Obama presidency is easily a controversial one due to the significant developments in both domestic and foreign policy over the last eight years. Being handed a country on the brink of economic depression, while also entangled in multiple military and foreign relation quagmires, Obama was tasked with a problem many would have balked to handle. Nonetheless,…