US Foreign Policy in a Challenging World

1. Introduction: US Foreign Policy in Front of Global Uncertainty and Regional Fragmentation
Marco Clementi, Barbara Pisciotta

Part I. The US Amidst Global Influence and Regional Dilemmas

2. Spatial Fragmentation of, and US Support for, the Main Multilateral Institutions of the Western Order
Carla Monteleone

3. Containment Through Trade? Explaining the US Support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Arlo Poletti

4. United States Antipiracy Policies: Between Military Missions and Private Sector Responsabilization
Eugenio Cusumano, Stefano Ruzza

5. Shaping the Next Phase of US Non-proliferation Policy
Rupal N. Mehta, Rachel E. Whitlark

6. The Stability of the US Hegemony in Times of Regional Divergence
Marco Clementi

Part II. Europe and Transatlantic Relations

7. What’s in a Name? Walls, Immigrants, Ethnicity, and the Issue of US-Transatlantic Relations
David G. Haglund

8. Too Far Ahead? The US Bid for Military Superiority and Its Implications for European Allies
Andrea Locatelli

9. Global Outreach and Regional Consequences: The Impact of US Interventionism on Transatlantic Relations
Andrea Carati

10. The US-Russia Conflict in the Ukrainian Crisis: Unipolarism Versus Revisionism?
Barbara Pisciotta

Part III. The Middle East

11. Towards a Post-Camp David Paradigm? US Foreign Policy in a Reshuffled Middle East
Marco Pinfari

12. The Terminal Decline of American Democracy Promotion in the Middle East
Oz Hassan

13. Constructing a Regional Order Through Security: Strategies and Failures of US Policy Towards the Sahara-Sahel Region
Edoardo Baldaro

14. Mirage of Retrenchment: Obama and the Syrian Conflict
Marina Calculli

15. Israel, ISIS and the Iran Nuclear Deal: The Comeback of the Middle East in the 2016 American Presidential Campaign
Marco Morini

Part IV. The Asia-Pacific

16. The US Rebalancing and the Process of Regionalization in the Asia-Pacific
Matteo Dian

17. US Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) in the South China Sea—Able to Keep Chinese Territorial Expansionism in Check?
Axel Berkofsky

18. Confronting China’s Cyberwarfare Capabilities: A “Weapon of the Weak” or a Force Multiplier?
Simone Dossi

19. The US-Japan-Australia Trilateral Against the Backdrop of US Grand Strategy
John C. Hemmings

20. Conclusions: US Foreign Policy Under Trump, Years of Upheaval
Matteo Dian

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, US Politics, Foreign Policy, Regional/Spatial Science, Regionalism, International Economics