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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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.