xxii, 485 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Note
"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Crown Publishers ... New York, in 2012"--Page vi.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-471) and index.
Summary
Presents an assessment of Obama's foreign-policy challenges and achievements addressing questions from the outcomes of radically different approaches to American national security to the ways in which fiscal constraints have affected American power.
Contents
Part I: Afghanistan and Pakistan : the curse of unfinished business. Blowing smoke ; "Afghan good enough" ; The bomb scare ; Getting bin Laden, losing Pakistan ; The long game : getting out, without really leaving -- Part II: Iran : the zone of immunity. The secret war chapter ; "Cut off the head of the snake" ; Olympic games ; "The land of lousy options" -- Part III: Drones and cyber : the remote-control war. The dark side of the light footprint -- Part IV: Arab spring : the revolts, and the rise of the brotherhood. "You sold out the revolution" ; Searching for the "right side of history" ; The riddle of the brotherhood ; What works once doesn't always work twice -- Part V: China and North Korea : the rebalancing. Restraining the tiger, containing the Kims -- Epilogue.
