The Obama Administration
Perceptions and Encounters Beyond America
Will be published approx. on 23. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
278 pages
978-1-350-29085-3 (ISBN)
Description
This collection offers a detailed assessment of the varied ways in which President Barack Obama was received by audiences beyond America's borders and assesses what effect this had on his foreign policy initiatives. The book approaches international perceptions of President Obama through specific case study examinations of his most significant state visits, offering original insights into Obama's reception in Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa.
Chapters on Europe explore the complex relationship that Obama shared with both British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Northern Ireland's fragile executive. The papal visit is also examined as well as Obama's image in Russia, which explores the varied ways in which state-controlled media attempted to portray Obama as an enemy of Russia. Chapters on the Middle East address the various shifts that occurred in America's relationship with Iran under Obama, Israeli hostilities towards Obama, and Turkey's more assertive foreign policy. Other contributions include analysis of Obama's visits to Ghana and Kenya, providing important insights into US-Africa relations under his administration and Obama's historic visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan. Together, these essays provide a detailed and comprehensive assessment of Obama's state visits, with much needed insight into how the perceptions of Obama, formed by these visits, affected the US' diplomatic and foreign policy initiatives under his administration.
Chapters on Europe explore the complex relationship that Obama shared with both British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Northern Ireland's fragile executive. The papal visit is also examined as well as Obama's image in Russia, which explores the varied ways in which state-controlled media attempted to portray Obama as an enemy of Russia. Chapters on the Middle East address the various shifts that occurred in America's relationship with Iran under Obama, Israeli hostilities towards Obama, and Turkey's more assertive foreign policy. Other contributions include analysis of Obama's visits to Ghana and Kenya, providing important insights into US-Africa relations under his administration and Obama's historic visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan. Together, these essays provide a detailed and comprehensive assessment of Obama's state visits, with much needed insight into how the perceptions of Obama, formed by these visits, affected the US' diplomatic and foreign policy initiatives under his administration.
Reviews / Votes
In this wide-ranging volume, Gibson and Pistol have assembled a diverse range of assessments of the international reception of President Obama and his diplomacy across the globe. Attentive to both Obama's successes and failures, these essays help to move us beyond the caricatures of Obama, both positive and negative, and to provide a fuller, more nuanced appreciation of his presidency's legacy beyond the borders of the United States. * Richard Ellis, Williamete University, USA * The Obama Administration: Perspectives and Encounters Beyond America is a timely, original and ambitious edited collection that comprehensively explores in detail the complexities and lingering legacies of the Obama presidency beyond the US to areas that include Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, the Caribbean and Africa. This bold and expansive book explores a range of themes including religion, the media, warfare, race and memory. Overall, an important addition to the ever-growing work on the global consequences of the historic Obama presidency. * Imaobong Umoren, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-29085-3 (9781350290853)
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Persons
Dawn-Marie Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in Modern American History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is the author of Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam (2014), The Nation of Islam (2016) and New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam (2017).
Rachel Pistol is a Researcher at King's College London, UK, and is part of the management team for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. She is the author of Internment During the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA (2017) as well as articles published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Comparative American Studies and Patterns of Prejudice.
Rachel Pistol is a Researcher at King's College London, UK, and is part of the management team for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. She is the author of Internment During the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA (2017) as well as articles published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Comparative American Studies and Patterns of Prejudice.
Content
Introduction
Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Rachel Pistol, King's College London
1. Obama, Britain and the Special Relationship
Clive Webb, University of Sussex
2. President Barack Obama and the Northern Ireland Executive
Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London
3. The Pope Comes Calling: The Papal Visit of 2015 as Public Diplomacy and Obama's Engagement for Strategic Communication
Aidan Moir, University of Windsor
4. The image of Barack Obama in the state-controlled media in Russia
Marcin Skladanowski, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
5. "Israel's Obama Problem - and Ours": Importing American Neoconservatism to Israel, Duty-Free
Yoav Fromer, Tel Aviv University
6. Remote Warfare and the Global Perception of Obama's Counterterrorism Policy
Tom Watts, Royal Holloway, University of London
7. Barack Obama's historic visit to Ghana, 2009
De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway, University of Cape Coast
Eric Osei Prempeh, University of Cape Coast
8. "You've Been Lost": The Personal and International Dynamics of President Barack Obama's Presidential State Visit to Kenya
C. Scott Maravilla, Washington College of Law
9. A Promise Fulfilled? Obama and Cuba
Laura Smith, University of Oxford
10. "Their souls speak to us": 2016 and the politics of remembrance between the US and Japan
Rachel Pistol, King's College London
11. Obama in China
Mara Oliva, University of Reading
Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Rachel Pistol, King's College London
1. Obama, Britain and the Special Relationship
Clive Webb, University of Sussex
2. President Barack Obama and the Northern Ireland Executive
Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London
3. The Pope Comes Calling: The Papal Visit of 2015 as Public Diplomacy and Obama's Engagement for Strategic Communication
Aidan Moir, University of Windsor
4. The image of Barack Obama in the state-controlled media in Russia
Marcin Skladanowski, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
5. "Israel's Obama Problem - and Ours": Importing American Neoconservatism to Israel, Duty-Free
Yoav Fromer, Tel Aviv University
6. Remote Warfare and the Global Perception of Obama's Counterterrorism Policy
Tom Watts, Royal Holloway, University of London
7. Barack Obama's historic visit to Ghana, 2009
De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway, University of Cape Coast
Eric Osei Prempeh, University of Cape Coast
8. "You've Been Lost": The Personal and International Dynamics of President Barack Obama's Presidential State Visit to Kenya
C. Scott Maravilla, Washington College of Law
9. A Promise Fulfilled? Obama and Cuba
Laura Smith, University of Oxford
10. "Their souls speak to us": 2016 and the politics of remembrance between the US and Japan
Rachel Pistol, King's College London
11. Obama in China
Mara Oliva, University of Reading