US Politics and the United Nations : : A Tale of Dysfunctional Dynamics / / Alynna J. Lyon.
It is no secret that the US variously pulls away from the United Nations and embraces it as a significant venue for policy initiatives. But what explains this dramatic inconsistency? What is the logic of US multilateralism? Alynna Lyon explores the puzzling waxing and waning of US support for the UN...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- 1. The Puzzles and Paradoxes of US-UN Relations
- 2. Mapping Multilateralism
- 3. US Politics and the Founding of the United Nations
- 4. Drifting Apart and the Politics of Estrangement, 1945–1988
- 5. The 1990s: “The United Nations Has Become Fashionable Again”
- 6. The George W. Bush Administration and “Stealth Multilateralism”
- 7. Barack Obama and the Rhetorical Return to the UN
- 8. Exceptional Americanism and the Essentials of Cooperation
- Index
- About the Book