Hence, it is open to question whether historians will look at the Obama era as the beginning of a new and enduring conception of America’s role in the world, or just as a temporary retrenchment phase. However, the president’s restrained and sometimes unsentimental approach also generated widespread discontent. Such a strategic outlook allowed the Obama administration to achieve important foreign policy breakthroughs while providing a breathing space to restore the foundations of American power. At the same time, Obama injected a strong dose of pragmatism in America’s dealings with allies and competitors alike. The administration’s effort to revive America’s leading role in global affairs was predicated on scaling down existing military commitments while trying as much as possible to avoid new ones. Obama and his advisers sought to restore a balance among the country’s global commitments, as well as between foreign interests and domestic concerns. Surveys of the foreign policy of the Obama administration consistently portray America’s 44th president as a leader strongly determined to bring America’s foreign and national security policy on a more sustainable path. 'Lynch has written a cogent, graceful, provocative account of American foreign policy in the wake of-but, he argues, still powerfully influenced by-the Cold War. While there were many setbacks between the fall of Soviet communism and the opening years of the Trump administration, from Rwanda to 9/11 and Iraq to Syria, Lynch demonstrates how and why the U.S. This book tells the story not of a revolution in American foreign policy but of its essentially continuous character from one era to the next.

When strategic lessons of the Cold War were applied, presidents fared better when they were forgotten, they fared worse. In chapters that retell and reargue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow on the presidents that came after it and that success came more from adapting to that shadow than in attempts to escape it.

foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. This book offers a bold reinterpretation of the prevailing narrative that U.S.

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