After Obama
Renewing American Leadership, Restoring Global Order

After Obama examines how and why US influence has contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values.

Robert S. Singh (Author)

9781316507261, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 May 2016

160 pages, 5 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.24 kg

'After Obama is the intellectual cold shower needed after more than a decade of strategically incoherent behavior on the part of the United States. Witty and sure-footed in his command of history, American politics and international affairs, Robert Singh offers a concise account of the hole Washington has dug for itself and the steps necessary for America to regain its position of global leadership.' Gary Schmitt, Director, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, American Enterprise Institute

Barack Obama's foreign policy has failed but the American strategic mind has not yet closed. In After Obama, Robert Singh examines how and why US influence has weakened and contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values. A well-intentioned but naive strategy of engagement has encouraged US adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran to assert themselves while allowing Western alliances to fray. But, challenging claims of an inevitable American decline, Singh argues that US leadership is a matter of will as much as wallet. Despite partisan polarization at home and the rise of the rest abroad, Washington can renew American leadership and, through a New American Internationalism, pave a path to the restoration of global order. Timely and provocative, the book offers a powerful critique of the Obama Doctrine and a call for strategic resolution in place of 'leading from behind'.

1. A return to strategy
2. Strategic sabbatical: lessons of Obama's failure
3. '45': prospects for renewal
4. Reversing declinism: towards a second American century?
5. The way forward: a new American internationalism.

Subject Areas: Geopolitics [JPSL], Diplomacy [JPSD], International relations [JPS]