European Foreign Policy and American Primacy

Purpose The USA has been suffering from international/transnational terrorism for decades. There is no consensus on whether this situation is a result of the international status of the USA and the principles it upholds or the policies it embraces in its interaction with the outside world. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts both the “American Primacy” theory and the “anti-Americanism” theory in its effort to reach a conclusion concerning this issue. This study aims to examine previous research that linked international terrorism to the US hegemony and the principles it abides by and showed the relevance of this perception to the “American Primacy” theory. It also examines the research that considered international/transnational terrorism as a result of the American foreign policy in its various aspects (economic, military, assistance or a whole combination of policies). Findings This literature on the American foreign policy and international/transnational terrorism was extensive and manifested the explanatory power of the “anti-Americanism” theory, especially in its three variants: issue-oriented, ideological and instrumental. While examining the foreign policy terrorism studies, the relevance of the “American Primacy” theory appeared at very few instances. Originality/value The study was able to prove that explaining the international/transnational terrorism is related to the foreign policy decisions taken by the American policymakers and cause harm to the outside world. The envy of “American Primacy” is of secondary importance.

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Eagle rules?: foreign policy and American primacy in the twenty-first century

Choice Reviews Online ◽

10.5860/choice.40-0554 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 40 (01) ◽

pp. 40-0554-40-0554

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

First Century ◽

American Primacy ◽

Twenty First Century

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9. Regional shifts and US foreign policy

US Foreign Policy ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780199585816.003.0009 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter Trubowitz

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

American Foreign Policy ◽

American Power ◽

Regional Diversity ◽

Distribution Of Wealth ◽

Great Debate ◽

American Primacy ◽

American Society ◽

The Impact ◽

Regional Interests

This chapter examines the impact of regionalism on U.S. foreign policy. In contrast to accounts that grant primacy to ideas or institutions, it argues that America’s regional diversity is the most important source of tension and conflict over foreign policy. It also shows that conflicts over the purposes of American power, as well as the constitutional authority to exercise it, are fundamentally conflicts over the distribution of wealth and power in American society among coalitions with divergent interests and claims on the federal government’s resources. The chapter develops this argument by analysing debates over American foreign policy in three different periods: the 1890s, the 1930s, and the current era. After discussing the link between regional interests and foreign policy, the chapter considers the great debate over expansionism, the struggle over internationalism, and American primacy and the ‘new sectionalism’.

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Bipartisan Foreign Policy: Myth or Reality?Cecil V. Crabb, Jr.The Political Process and Foreign Policy: The Making of the Japanese Settlement.Bernard C. Cohen

The Journal of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0022381600033831 ◽

1958 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 562-564

Author(s):

Elmer Plischke

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Political Process

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Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300044508 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 62-79

Author(s):

W.J. Boot

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

Foreign Relations ◽

East Asian ◽

Modern Period ◽

Cultural Sphere ◽

Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

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