The United States in the Indo-Pacific : Obama's legacy and the Trump transition
Oliver Turner (Editor), Inderjeet Parmar (Editor)
"This edited collection examines the political, economic and security legacies of former US President Barack Obama in Asia and the Pacific, following two terms in office between 2009 and 2017. In a region that has only become more vivid in the American political imagination since Obama left office, this volume interrogates the endurance of Obama's legacies in what is increasingly reimagined in Washington as the Indo-Pacific. Advancing our understanding of Obama's style, influence and impact throughout the region, this volume explores dimensions of US relations and interactions with key Indo-Pacific states including China, India, Japan, North Korea and Australia ; multilateral institutions and organisations such the East Asia Summit and ASEAN ; and salient issue areas such as regional security, politics and diplomacy, and the economy. How far has the Trump administration progressed in challenging or disrupting Obama's 'Pivot to Asia'? What differences can we discern in the declared or effective US strategy towards Asia and to what extent has it radically shifted or displaced Obama-era legacies? Including contributions from high-profile scholars and policy practitioners such as Michael Mastanduno, Bruce Cumings, Maryanne Kelton, Robert Sutter and Sumit Ganguly, contributors examine these questions at the halfway point of the 2017-21 Presidency of Donald Trump, as his administration opens a new and potentially divergent chapter of American internationalism."-- Publisher description
Print Book, English, 2020
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781526135032, 9781526135018, 1526135035, 1526135019
1104055078
ebook version :
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Introduction : The United States in the Asia and Indo-Pacifics / Inderjeet Parmar
Part I. Obama's Legacy in Asia and the Pacific
1. US imperial hegemony in the American Pacific / Oliver Turner
2. Humanitarian hawk meets rising dragon : Obama's legacy in US China policy / Peter Gries
3. The Obama administration and India / Christopher K. Colley and Sumit Ganguly
4. Obama and Japan : An endangered legacy / Matteo Dian
5. Obama, Trump, and North Korea / Bruce Cumings
6. The United States and Australia : Deepening ties and securitising cyberspace / Maryanne Kelton and Zac Rogers
7. Obama's legacy in US-ASEAN relations : Promises and perils / Prashanth Parameswaran
8. The Obama administration and the East Asia Summit : Exception, not transformation / Malcolm Cook
Part II. The United States in Asia and the Pacific Under Trump
9. Obama, Trump and US politics and diplomacy towards Asia / Robert Sutter
10. Security policy in Asia from Obama to Trump : Autopilot, neglect or worse? / Nick Bisley
11. A grand strategic transition? Obama, Trump, and the Asia Pacific political economy / Michael Mastanduno
Part III. From Obama to Trump in Asia and the Pacific : The Practitioners' View
12. From Obama to Trump, and beyond : Washington's painful search for a credible China policy / Börje Ljunggren
13. Multilateralism to transactionalism : America and Trump in the Asia Pacific / Ketan Patel and Christian Hansmeyer
14. Obama and Trump's marine machoism in the Indo-Pacific / Atul Bhardwaj
Conclusion : Legacies and transitions in the twenty-first-century Indo-Pacific / Inderjeet Parmar and Oliver Turner
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