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  • 6 - Barack Obama’s Flexible Response, 2009–2012

  • Timothy J. Lynch, University of Melbourne
  • Book:
    In the Shadow of the Cold War
    Published online:
    08 November 2019
    Print publication:
    05 December 2019, pp 162-196

  • Summary

    Argues that Obama was a Cold War–style foreign policy realist. Despite hopes and fears that he would transform American interests, he continued with approaches to Muslims and to counterterrorism, for example, that echoed those of his predecessors. Coming to power decrying the “dumb” Iraq War, Obama was complicit in regime change in Libya. He thus continued the pattern of waging wars to liberate Muslims.

  • 7 - Barack Obama’s Soft Containment, 2013–2017

  • Timothy J. Lynch, University of Melbourne
  • Book:
    In the Shadow of the Cold War
    Published online:
    08 November 2019
    Print publication:
    05 December 2019, pp 197-223

  • Summary

    Considers the strong realism of Obama and how his efforts to avoid the Syrian Civil War were like those of George H. W. Bush in Yugoslavia. Examines pros and cons of his nuclear deal with Iran and his failure to contain Russian power in Ukraine and Syria, an impotence he shares with several of his Cold War and post–Cold War predecessors. Assesses the Obama foreign policy legacy and how far it explains the rise of Donald Trump.