US grand strategy and national security: the dilemmas of primacy, decline and denial

Clarke, M; Ricketts, A

US grand strategy and national security: the dilemmas of primacy, decline and denial

Clarke, M

Ricketts, A

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Publisher:: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2017, 71, (5), pp. 479-498
Issue Date:: 2017-09-03

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dc.contributor.author	Clarke, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-9586
dc.contributor.author	Ricketts, A
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-03T23:31:44Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-03T23:31:44Z
dc.date.issued	2017-09-03
dc.identifier.citation	Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2017, 71, (5), pp. 479-498
dc.identifier.issn	1035-7718
dc.identifier.issn	1465-332X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/162266
dc.description.abstract	The foreign policy crises that the USA has confronted under the administration of President Barack Obama have generated profound uncertainty about whether the USA can maintain what has been its consistent grand strategy since the end of the Cold War: primacy. The authors argue, drawing on a neoclassical realist framework, that this uncertainty has been driven not so much by fundamental changes in the international system itself, but rather by how such changes have been interpreted by the Obama administration and its critics. US grand strategy is now caught between approaches best described as the ‘decline management’ of the Obama administration and the ‘decline denial’ of president Donald Trump, which reflects the fracturing of the domestic ‘political support system’ that has underpinned primacy since the end of the Cold War.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
dc.relation.ispartof	Australian Journal of International Affairs
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/10357718.2017.1342760
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	1605 Policy and Administration, 1606 Political Science
dc.subject.classification	International Relations
dc.title	US grand strategy and national security: the dilemmas of primacy, decline and denial
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (International)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (International)/Australia-China Relations Institute
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Abstract:

The foreign policy crises that the USA has confronted under the administration of President Barack Obama have generated profound uncertainty about whether the USA can maintain what has been its consistent grand strategy since the end of the Cold War: primacy. The authors argue, drawing on a neoclassical realist framework, that this uncertainty has been driven not so much by fundamental changes in the international system itself, but rather by how such changes have been interpreted by the Obama administration and its critics. US grand strategy is now caught between approaches best described as the ‘decline management’ of the Obama administration and the ‘decline denial’ of president Donald Trump, which reflects the fracturing of the domestic ‘political support system’ that has underpinned primacy since the end of the Cold War.

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