Robert Singh is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His publications include American Government and Politics (2003), Contemporary American Politics: Issues and Controversies (2003), (as co-editor) The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism (2006) and (as co-author) After Bush: The Case For Continuity in American Foreign Policy (2008).

An incisive, lucid, and original work. Robert Singh deftly rebuts the conventional wisdom, avoids the platitudes that so often afflict treatments of the subject, and identifies surprising continuities with the Bush era. This is the best book yet written on the Obama foreign policy.

• Introduction: Obama, the Post-American World and the Black Man's Burden Inheritance and Transition: Towards an Obama Doctrine? The war on terror Afghanistan and Pakistan Iran Israel & Palestine China Russia Europe Conclusion: The Limits of Engagement Index

Robert Singh is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His publications include American Government and Politics (2003), Contemporary American Politics: Issues and Controversies (2003), (as co-editor) The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism (2006) and (as co-author) After Bush: The Case For Continuity in American Foreign Policy (2008).

An incisive, lucid, and original work. Robert Singh deftly rebuts the conventional wisdom, avoids the platitudes that so often afflict treatments of the subject, and identifies surprising continuities with the Bush era. This is the best book yet written on the Obama foreign policy.

• Introduction: Obama, the Post-American World and the Black Man's Burden Inheritance and Transition: Towards an Obama Doctrine? The war on terror Afghanistan and Pakistan Iran Israel & Palestine China Russia Europe Conclusion: The Limits of Engagement Index

Robert Singh is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His publications include American Government and Politics (2003), Contemporary American Politics: Issues and Controversies (2003), (as co-editor) The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism (2006) and (as co-author) After Bush: The Case For Continuity in American Foreign Policy (2008).

An incisive, lucid, and original work. Robert Singh deftly rebuts the conventional wisdom, avoids the platitudes that so often afflict treatments of the subject, and identifies surprising continuities with the Bush era. This is the best book yet written on the Obama foreign policy.

• Introduction: Obama, the Post-American World and the Black Man's Burden Inheritance and Transition: Towards an Obama Doctrine? The war on terror Afghanistan and Pakistan Iran Israel & Palestine China Russia Europe Conclusion: The Limits of Engagement Index