US politics and the United Nations : a tale of dysfunctional dynamics /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyon, Alynna, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • The puzzles and paradoxes of US-UN relations
  • Mapping multilateralism
  • US politics and the founding of the United Nations
  • Drifting apart and the politics of estrangement, 1945-1988
  • The 1990s : "the United Nations has become fashionable again"
  • The George W. Bush administration and "stealth multilateralism"
  • Obama and the rhetorical return to the UN
  • Exceptional Americanism and the essentials of cooperation.