Constructing 21st Century U.S. Foreign Policy: Identity, Ideology, and America's World Role in a New Era [Hardcover]

This book argues that, in the years since the 9/11 attacks, socially constructed understandings of the identity of the United States and its friends and enemies have played a critical role in determining the course of U.S. foreign policy, in particular the Bush administration's choices with regard to the war on Iraq.Introduction: International Relations Theory and U.S. Foreign Policy in a New Era Theory and History Identity and Ideology in the War on Terror 'With Us or Against Us': Constructing America, its Enemies and the World Identity and Ideology in the Policy Process: Individual and Social Psychology in the Bush Administration Policy Consequences of Identity and Ideology Conclusion EndnotesKarl Schonberg is an Associate Professor of Government at St. Lawrence University, USA.