Understanding the Bush Doctrine

<p>In this volume leading scholars of U.S. foreign policy international relations and political psychology examine one of the most consequential and controversial statements of national security policy in contemporary American history. Unlike other books which focus only on unilateralism or preventive war Stanley A. Renshon and Peter Suedfeld provide a comprehensive framework with which to analyze the Bush Doctrine by identifying five central and interrelated elements of the doctrine:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>American pre-eminence</li> <li>assertive realism</li> <li>equivocal alliances</li> <li>selective multilateralism</li> <li>democratic transformation.</li> </ul><p>Given its centrality to American national security and the fact that the effects of it are likely to be felt well into the twenty-first century <em>Understanding the Bush Doctrine</em> provides a critically balanced and pointed assessment of the Bush Doctrine and its premises as well as a fair appraisal of its implications and prospects.</p>