Obama Administration

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.

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.

• IntroductionDawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of LondonRachel Pistol, King’s College London1. Obama, Britain and the Special RelationshipClive Webb, University of Sussex2. President Barack Obama and the Northern Ireland ExecutiveDawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London3. The Pope Comes Calling: The Papal Visit of 2015 as Public Diplomacy and Obama’s Engagement for Strategic CommunicationAidan Moir, University of Windsor4. The image of Barack Obama in the state-controlled media in RussiaMarcin Skladanowski, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin5. "Israel's Obama Problem – and Ours": Importing American Neoconservatism to Israel, Duty-FreeYoav Fromer, Tel Aviv University6. Remote Warfare and the Global Perception of Obama’s Counterterrorism Policy Tom Watts, Royal Holloway, University of London7. Barack Obama’s historic visit to Ghana, 2009De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway, University of Cape CoastEric Osei Prempeh, University of Cape Coast8. “You’ve Been Lost”: The Personal and International Dynamics of President Barack Obama’s Presidential State Visit to KenyaC. Scott Maravilla, Washington College of Law9. A Promise Fulfilled? Obama and CubaLaura Smith, University of Oxford10. “Their souls speak to us”: 2016 and the politics of remembrance between the US and JapanRachel Pistol, King’s College London11. Obama in ChinaMara Oliva, University of Reading