Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Derek Chollet
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American History ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
Inflection Points

This chapter explores the centrist tradition that unites Eisenhower, H. W. Bush, and Obama, revealing a distinct foreign policy lineage forged by presidents who served during inflection points in American history. It summarizes the Middle Way as an outlook and draws the connections between these three presidents. Finally, it previews the five different angles of statecraft—worldview, strategy, crisis, politics, and legacy—the book uses to study the thematic similarities between each president’s approach to foreign policy.

Foreign Policy in the Dictionary of American History

1941 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Louis Martin Sears
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American History

Explaining Scott’s Turn to American History

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-56
Author(s):  
Paolo Amorosa
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Law ◽  
American History ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
International Peace ◽  
International Court ◽  
The Us ◽  
Legal Advisor

The first chapter, like all others in the book, is divided in three sections. Section 1 offers an analysis of the US foreign policy discourse at the turn of the century and connects it with the growing popularity of international law within the elites. Section 2 follows Scott in his work as Secretary Root’s legal advisor at the State Department, until the two moved together to lead the newly established Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The highlight of Scott’s government stint was the 1907 Second Hague Peace Conference, where he championed the project for an international court and created a large part of the transatlantic professional connections that would be crucial to his later projects. Section 3 describes how Scott, since 1910 a powerful administrator at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, deployed the massive resources at his disposal.

Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisel Hintz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Inflection Points ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
Institutional Legacies

This chapter provides an overview of Turkey’s foreign policy toward the Middle East from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. Its thematic focus includes institutional legacies of imperial rule, Cold War alliance dynamics, ethnic and religious/sectarian politics, and strategies of economic development. It suggests that an analytical focus on identity contestation between competing versions of Turkishness—Republican Nationalism and Ottoman Islamism—that prescribe very different foreign policy orientations helps to explain the dramatic shift toward a highly activist role in the Middle East in the mid-2000s. Applying this conceptual framework, the discussion highlights the key influential factors and inflection points shaping bilateral ties with the most prominent states, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Syria, as well as non-state actors, including various Kurdish and Palestinian entities.

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