englischThis volume addresses the international challenges that the US faces in the post-Trump era. Will President Joe Biden succeed in restoring the traditional leadership role of the US? What are the international and domestic hurdles for Biden in advancing his foreign policy agenda? Drawing on a [...]

englischIn US military intervention policy, presidents can usually benefit from substantial room for manoeuvre, which is not called into question by Congress and its members. Based on a domestic perspective of US foreign policy, this study argues that presidents deploy tropes of American [...]

englischMuch of the academic debate surrounding the War on Terror focuses on presidential power after 9/11. In this context, the role of the US Congress in directing the outcome of national security policies is often overlooked. This book illustrates how Congress played a key role in the War on [...]

englischDo liberal Western democracies share a common understanding of democracy? If so, why is there a transatlantic divide over the promotion of democracy? While the US applies a bottom-up strategy in this respect, the European Union pursues a top-down approach. While there is consensus as to the [...]

englischThis edited volume provides the reader with a concise and detailed overview of political developments in the United States since the beginning of the Trump administration. It critically analyses domestic and foreign politics as well as current events, and places them in the wider context of [...]

englischUS election campaigns have always attracted enormous amounts of money. But when the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that bans on donations from corporations, interest groups and individuals were unconstitutional, it marked nothing less than a watershed moment in US campaign financing.

But what [...]

In den Vereinigten Staaten findet in regelmäßigen Abständen eine Neueinteilung der Wahlkreise für das Repräsentantenhaus statt. Dieses unter dem Namen Redistricting bekannte Verfahren ist von hoher politischer Sprengkraft, da Wahlkreisgrenzen über künftige Mehrheitsverhältnisse entscheiden.  [...]

Die theoriegeleitet-komparative Studie betont im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Arbeiten zur Außenpolitik Amerikas, dass die demokratische Kontrolle von Militäreinsätzen durch die US-Legislative von einer erheblichen Varianz gekennzeichnet ist. Vor allem wenn die Kongressmitglieder an der Betroffenheit [...]

englischPolicy changes of the U.S. have a global sphere of influence. All the more we must be able to identify their nature - especially in the area of national security policy change. The work in hand develops a concept to identify national security policy change that is missing in the current [...]

Mit dem Amtsantritt Barack Obamas als 44. Präsident der USA waren von Beginn an große Hoffnungen auf Reformen und einen Politikwechsel in der Innen- wie Außenpolitik verbunden. Die Schlüsselbegriffe change und yes, we can waren nicht nur Schlachtrufe des Wahlkampfes, sondern wurden zu Chiffren der [...]