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The Uncertain Superpower

Domestic Dimensions of U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War

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Editors:
  1. Bernhard May

    1. German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin, Germany

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  2. Michaela Hönicke Moore

    1. German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin, Germany
      European History and Transatlantic Relations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Germany

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Part of the book series: Berliner Schriften zur Internationalen Politik (BSZIP)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-8
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  2. Introduction: The Uncertain Superpower ‘After September 11th’

    1. Introduction: The Uncertain Superpower ‘After September 11th’

      • Bernhard May
      Pages 9-13

  3. Constitutional and Institutional Dimensions: Executive, Legislative, Public Opinion and the Media

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Constitutional and Institutional Dimensions: White House-Congress Relations After the End of the ‘Imperial Presidency’

      • Stanley R. Sloan
      Pages 17-27

    3. Divided Government: The Democratic Dilemma of Making U.S. Foreign Policy

      • Michaela Hönicke Moore
      Pages 29-40

    4. Apathy, Interest, and the Politics of American Foreign Policy

      • James M. Lindsay
      Pages 41-55

    5. Domestic Sources of US Foreign Policy

      • Gebhard Schweigler
      Pages 57-66

  4. U.S. Leadership and the Reform of Western Security Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. “U.S. Leadership and the Reform of Western Security Institutions: NATO Enlargement and ESDP”

      • Peter W. Rodman
      Pages 69-81

    3. Recasting the Atlantic Bargain

      • Charles A. Kupchan
      Pages 83-92

    4. U.S. Leadership and the Reform of Western Security Institutions: NATO Enlargement and ESDP

      • Peter Rudolf
      Pages 93-101

  6. U.S. Leadership in International Institutions and Multilateral Regime-Building

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. False Choices: Unilateralism, Multilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy

      • Edward C. Luck
      Pages 161-183

    3. The Lack of U.S. leadership in Climate Change Diplomacy

      • Petra Holtrup
      Pages 185-207

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 208-212
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About this book

the republican party, especially within those groups that supported President Bush. There was a strong backlash in Europe against this more unilateralist and more isolationist foreign policy of the Bush administration. Transatlantic re­ lations went through a difficult phase in the Spring of 2001, each side criti­ cizing the other for doing the wrong thing and for damaging transatlantic re­ lations. In Europe, President Bush was not seen as a world leader, but rather as the governor from Texas. Europeans criticized the Bush administration for not accepting the role as the only remaining superpower and for not accepting the global responsibility linked to being a global power. Transatlantic rela­ tions were at a low point in June of 2001 when President Bush came to Europe the first time. All of that changed overnight with the terror attacks of September 11, 200 I. Millions of Europeans demonstrated their solidarity with the American people. In Berlin, for example, approximately 200,000 people took part in a demonstration in front of the Brandenburg Gate on September 14 to show their solidarity with the American people. International terrorism was the new common challenge. For several months it seemed like the old trans­ atlantic quarrels would be forgotten. There was a new spirit in transatlantic relations, a new commitment to fight common enemies and protect common values. The question was, how long would it last.

Editors and Affiliations

  • German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin, Germany

    Bernhard May, Michaela Hönicke Moore

  • European History and Transatlantic Relations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Germany

    Michaela Hönicke Moore

About the editors

Dr. Bernhard May, deputy director of the research institute and head of the USA/Transatlantic Relations program at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin; Dr. Michaela Hönicke-Moore, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Uncertain Superpower

  • Book Subtitle: Domestic Dimensions of U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War

  • Editors: Bernhard May, Michaela Hönicke Moore

  • Series Title: Berliner Schriften zur Internationalen Politik

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11631-8

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8100-3437-3Published: 28 February 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-663-11631-8Published: 09 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 212

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, International Relations

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