Constructing 21st Century U.S. Foreign Policy

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.

Autorentext
Karl Schonberg is an Associate Professor of Government at St. Lawrence University, USA.

Inhalt
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