Obama and the world : new directions in US foreign policy / edited by Inderjeet Parmar, Linda B. Miller and Mark Ledwidge.

Earlier edition published under title: New directions in US foreign policy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Theories -- Obama: a more realist foreign policy? / Adam Quinn (Birmingham, UK) -- Obama and the War on Terror: a constructivist analysis / Richard Jackson (Otago, NZ) and Matt McDonald (Adelaide, Australia) -- Whither neoconservatism after Bush / Rob Singh (Birkbeck, UK) -- Obama, liberalism and foreign policy / Tim Lynch (Melbourne, Australia) -- Marxism and us foreign policy / Doug Stokes (Exeter, UK) and David Maher (Kent, UK) -- Cosmopolitanism and the Obama administration / Mark Ledwidge (Canterbury Christchurch, UK) -- Hegemonic transition theory and American power today / Nick Kitchen (LSE, UK) -- Part II. Non-state actors -- Obama and bipartisanship in foreign policy / Steven Hurst (Manchester Metropolitan, UK) -- Think tanks and US foreign policy / Donald Abelson (Western Ontario, Canada) -- The Tea Party and Christian evangelicals / Lee Marsden (UEA, UK) -- Public opinion and US foreign policy / Jim McCormick (Iowa State, US) -- US corporations and grand strategy / Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Nana de Graaff (Free University, Amsterdam) -- Part III. New problems, paradigms and policies -- Africa and the Obama administration / George Kieh (Univ of W. Georgia) -- The militarisation of US intelligence / Mark Phythian and Trevor McCrisken (Leicester; Warwick) -- America looks east? Transatlanticism under the Obama adminstration / David Dunn (Birmingham, UK) -- The Obama administration and'rising' China / Oliver Turner (Manchester, UK) -- The U.S. and the Arab Spring: now and then in the Middle East / Linda B. Miller (Brown, US) -- Wikileaks and American power / Inderjeet Parmar (City University London, UK) -- US, UN and multilateralism / Craig N. Murphy (Wellesley/U. Mass, Boston, US) -- Part IV. A view from practitioners -- Obama and American power today: a commentary / Ketan Patel and Christian Hansmeyer (Global Pacific Investors, London, UK) -- The prospects for Sino-US relations in the coming period / Ketan Patel and Christian Hansmeyer (Global Pacific Investors, London, UK).