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Neoliberalism and U.S. Foreign Policy

From Carter to Trump

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  1. Catherine V. Scott

    1. Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, USA

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  • Challenges, complicates, and revises the numerous interpretations of U.S. nationalism that posit a homologous relationship between “1898” and contemporary nationalism

  • Shows how alterations in the operations of capitalism and its correlative forms of governance have produced a differently formatted nationalism

  • Argues for a different timeline of U.S. foreign policy that starts with the Carter-Reagan era and the crisis of capitalism

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Foucault, Carter, and Trump? Neoliberalism and US Foreign Policy

    • Catherine V. Scott
    Pages 1-47

  3. From Rambo to Jack Bauer: Neoliberal Masculinity in an Age of Terror

    • Catherine V. Scott
    Pages 49-86

  4. From Captives on the Frontier to Saving the World

    • Catherine V. Scott
    Pages 87-125

  5. Exceptionally Diverse: Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Race, and Risk

    • Catherine V. Scott
    Pages 127-170

  6. Neoliberal Patriotism

    • Catherine V. Scott
    Pages 171-209

  7. The Trump Test: Neoliberalism, Foreign Policy, and the 2016 Election

    • Catherine V. Scott
    Pages 211-256

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 257-260
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About this book

While there has been a flood of scholarly efforts to extend, adapt, and revise Foucault’s exploration of the emergence and operations of neoliberalism, the study of foreign policy has remained steeped in the analysis of partisanship, institutions, policies, and personality and their influence on various issue areas, toward particular countries, or specific presidential doctrines. This book brings the political rationality of neoliberalism to bear on U.S. foreign policy in two distinct ways. First, it challenges, complicates, and revises the numerous interpretations of U.S. nationalism that posit a homologous relationship between “1898” and contemporary nationalism, instead arguing that alterations in the operations of capitalism and its correlative forms of governance have produced a differently formatted nationalism, which in turn has produced different operations of U.S. hegemony in the twenty-first century that markedly depart from earlier eras. Second, this book argues for a new timeline—one that starts with the Carter-Reagan era and the crisis of capitalism—ultimately encouraging us to think beyond particular presidencies, wars, bureaucratic politics, and policies in order to train our sights on how long-term and sustained shifts in the economy and attendant government practices have emerged to produce new myths of exceptionalism that more fully cohere with the neoliberal foundations of the U.S. nation-state. 

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“The book’s stated aim is ‘to complicate, challenge, and offer revisions’ against those ‘who reach for early eras of foreign policy or undertake institutional analyses to draw connections between the national security state of the Cold War era and today’s national security apparatus in order to explain current US foreign policy.’” (Roger Chapman, Cercles, cercles.com, January, 17, 2019)

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, USA

    Catherine V. Scott

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Catherine V. Scott is Professor of Political Science at Agnes Scott College, USA. Her publications include Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory (1996) along with numerous articles.

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