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This?book analyzes the impact of US foreign policy under Obama on strategic and political developments in a several regions. Perceptions towards the US in China, Korea, Russia, India, Latin America and particularly in the Middle East are all investigated.

The United States is the most powerful actor in world politics. In order to understand both the current international system and the future directions it may take, it is therefore critical to understand America’s capabilities and intentions. For this reason, both its friends and its foes constantly assess America’s standing. In turn, their perceptions of America’s standing play a major role in informing their own foreign policies. At present, it seems that there is a growing convergence of views that the United States’ standing is declining under President Obama. This perception of decline is then likely to feedback into the international system, with consequences for America’s own position.

There have been a number of books addressing the question of which grand strategy the U.S should adopt and the issue of whether or not America is in relative decline as a world power. Many of the works addressing these issues focused on the question of whether assertive military interventions under the George W. Bush administration was hastening America’s decline and generating hatred of America. Indeed, the whole debate on American grand strategy, American decline and anti-Americanism was set against the policies of the George W, Bush administration. In contrast, in recent years it is the Obama’s administration’s lack of assertiveness in its foreign policy that is raising questions concerning America’s credibility as an ally and great power.?This volume?also stands out by virtue of the fact that it will examine America’s standing from the perspective of different actors across various regions, while also assessing how these perceptions interact with America’s own policies.

This book will be of much interest to students of US foreign policy, US national security, strategic studies, Middle Eastern politics, international relations and security studies generally.

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CONTENTS
List of figures = ix
List of tables = x
Notes on contributors = xi
Introduction / Efraim Inbar ; Jonathan Rynhold = 1
PART Ⅰ The United States today = 13
 1 Lessons from 15 years of war / Eliot Cohen = 15
 2 The US foreign policy debate : deja vu? / Henry R. Nau = 27
 3 Obama : the reluctant realist / Steven David = 41
 4 Public opinion and Obama''''s foreign policy / Evtan Gilboa = 63
PART Ⅱ Regional perceptions = 89
 5 The United States'''' standing in China : Chinese attitudes toward the United States / Jian Wang = 91
 6 Seoul-Washington alliance : the beginning of independence? / Alon Levkowitz = 109
 7 Change and continuity in Russian perceptions of the United States / Dmitri (Dima) Adamsky = 123
 8 India''''s perspective of US political leadership and foreign policy / C. Uday Bhaskar = 139
 9 US-Latin American relations and the role of the United States in the world : the view from Latin America / Arie M. Kacowicz = 129
PART Ⅲ The Middle East = 179
 10 Obama and the Middle East : illusions and delusions / Efraim Karsh = 181
 11 US counter-proliferation policy : the case of Iran / Emily B. Landau = 198
 12 Erdoğan''''s Turkey and Obama''''s United States / Efrat Aviv = 213
 13 Vultures over the Nile : US-Egypt relations between Hosni Mubarak to Abdel-Fatteh al-Sisi / Yehuda U. Balanga = 230
 14 Israeli attitudes to the Obama administration / Yaeli Bloch-Elkon ; Jonathan Rynhold = 248
 15 The impact of a transformed US global stance on Israel''''s national security strategy / Shmuel Sandler = 267
Index = 284