The World Views of the Obama Era
From Hope to Disillusionment
Editors: Maass, Matthias (Ed.)
Free Preview- Gathers contributions from fourteen different countries in every region of the world to offer international and non-US retrospectives on the Barack Obama presidency
- Traces the arc of the promise-heavy start and the disillusioning end of the Obama presidency in tandem with the companion volume, The World Views of the U.S. Presidential Election: 2008 (2009)
- Examines foreign policy, international relations, cultural influence, public opinion, and political history with regard to global perceptions of the Obama administration
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- About this book
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This book presents selected non-US views of the Barack Obama administration. Each chapter investigates eight years of the Obama presidency from a different national perspective. By bringing together fourteen country studies from all regions of the world, this volume offers an accumulative global view of the Obama White House’s foreign policies and bilateral affairs. It provides an outside perspective on a presidency that was initially greeted with much enthusiasm world-wide, but seemed to fall out of favor over time in most countries. The overwhelming hope that was associated with the election of Obama in 2008 turned to disillusionment world-wide; the changes in US external affairs he promised were only partially fulfilled and the world was reminded that America’s place and role in the world would not change dramatically, not even under the inspirational Obama.
- About the authors
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Matthias Maass is Associate Professor of International Relations at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul/Korea. He is the author of a monograph on small state survival, and editor of multi-author volumes. He has published in a variety of academic journals worldwide. His current research foci are, in addition to the US and its external affairs, the small state and Northeast Asian security.
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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“The World Views” of Barack Obama
Pages 1-15
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The Barack Obama Presidency: Cuba
Pages 17-29
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Nigeria: Views from the Hegemon in West Africa on the Obama Administration
Pages 31-48
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Obama Delivers for Kenya: On Business
Pages 49-64
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Egypt and Obama: Turbulent Times, Bouncy Relations
Pages 65-85
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The World Views of the Obama Era
- Book Subtitle
- From Hope to Disillusionment
- Editors
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- Matthias Maass
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-61076-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-61076-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-61075-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-86998-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 347
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
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