Research Catalog

Title

The United States in the Indo-Pacific : Obama's legacy and the Trump transition / edited by Oliver Turner and Inderjeet Parmar.

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Turner, Oliver
• Parmar, Inderjeet

Description

xii, 259 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--

Subject

• Since 2009
• Diplomatic relations
• United States > Foreign relations > Asia
• Asia > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Pacific Area
• Pacific Area > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > 2009-2017
• United States > Foreign relations > 2017-2021
• Asia
• Pacific Area
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The United States in the Asia and Indo-Pacifics / Inderjeet Parmar -- Part 1: Obama's legacy in Asia and the Pacific : US imperial hegemony in the American Pacific / Oliver Turner -- Humanitarian hawk meets rising dragon: Obama's legacy in US China Policy / Peter Gries -- The Obama administration and India / Christopher K. Colley and Sumit Ganguly -- Obama and Japan: An endangered legacy / Matteo Dian -- Obama, Trump, and North Korea / Bruce Cumings -- The United States and Australia: Deepening ties and securitising cyberspace / Maryanne Kelton and Zac Rogers -- Obama's legacy in US-ASEAN relations: Promises and perils / Prashanth Parameswaran -- The Obama administration and the East Asia Summit: Exception, not transformation / Malcolm Cook -- Part 2: The US in Asia and the Pacific under Trump : Obama, Trump and US politics and diplomacy towards Asia / Robert Sutter -- Security policy in Asia from Obama to Trump: Autopilot, neglect or worse? / Nick Bisley -- A grand strategic transition? Obama, Trump, and the Asia Pacific political economy / Mike Mastanduno -- Part 3: From Obama to Trump in Asia and the Pacific: The practitioners' view : From Obama to Trump, and beyond: Washington's painful search for a credible China policy / Borje Ljunggren -- Multilateralism to transactionalism: America and Trump in the Asia Pacific / Ketan Patel and Christian Hansmeyer -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 21-3155

ISBN

• 1526135035
• 9781526135032
• 9781526135018
• 1526135019

OCLC

1104055078

Title

The United States in the Indo-Pacific : Obama's legacy and the Trump transition / edited by Oliver Turner and Inderjeet Parmar.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF EDNIBURGH.

Chronological Term

Since 2009

Added Author

Turner, Oliver, editor.

Parmar, Inderjeet, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781526135025

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3155