In this volume, leading scholars of US foreign policy, international relations, and political psychology examine one of the most consequential and controversial statements of national security policy in contemporary American history - the Bush Doctrine.
Examines one of the controversial statements of national security policy in contemporary American history. This work offers a framework to analyze the Bush Doctrine by identifying five central elements of the doctrine: American pre-eminence; assertive realism; equivocal alliances; selective multilateralism; and, democratic transformation.