Essays about: "Obama"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 73 essays containing the word Obama.

  1. 16. Early American Foreign Policy Towards the Syrian Conflict Captured Through Two Mainstream U.S. News Organizations. A Multidisciplinary Content Analysis of Fox News and CNN News Articles

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Maria F Herkel; [2020-08-19]
    Keywords : American foreign policy; ; Syria; Syrian conflict; ; Russian Syrian relations; UN; Security council; ; civil war; Libyan conflict; democrats; republican; McCain; Obama;

    Abstract : The CNN and Fox news articles conveyed to us multiple aspects of the situation in Syria. Through the analysis of the media published articles, the magnitude of the Syrian people suffering is evident to be substantial. The media framed many interacting local, regional and international factors that displayed to us the complexity of the conflict. READ MORE

  2. 17. Leadership in times of terrorism threat : An Analysis of George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s leadership qualities concerning counterterrorism

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Luisa Stier; [2020]
    Keywords : Leadership qualities; leadership styles; targeted killings of terrorists; counter-terrorism strategy; Barack Obama; George W. Bush; Greenstein’s typology;

    Abstract : While the US-presidency comprises the most powerful office of leadership in the world and has also been investigated at various angles in personal, biographical approaches as well as comparative studies, this research paper specifically lays focus and compares the two presidencies of President Bush and President Obama in regard of their leadership qualities and counter-terrorism strategies. Because counterterrorism seems to be a good example of how presidents perform crises-management and because the subject by itself is critical in the perspective of human rights and security concerns, the research paper has chosen to focus on President Bush and President Obama who are known to have chosen different routes and strategies in countering terrorism. READ MORE

  3. 18. The United States and Israel : A study of attitude of the past five United State presidents toward Israel and the Middle East conflict

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Aida Sirmanshahi; [2020]
    Keywords : Israel; United States; Palestine; the Middle East; rational choice; peace agreements;

    Abstract : Throughout the past eighty years, the United States and Israel have had a close relationship. This study aims to understand and define patterns of behavior from presidents of the United States in their relation with Israel. READ MORE

  4. 19. Who Leads Matters? A study of presidential leadership and its impact on environmental policy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Clara Andrén; [2020]
    Keywords : Foreign Policy Analysis; leadership; Obama; Trump; environmental policy; Paris Agreement; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As climate change is a global threat it is of essence to understand how we can work against it. Research within the sphere of Peace and Conflict Studies lacks the perspective of the psychology behind world leaders as an explanation for how environmental policy is conducted. READ MORE

  5. 20. International Anarchy & the American Leviathan : A study in the moral and empirical applications of Hobbes’ concept of anarchy to American Foreign policy

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik

    Author : Nathalie Martinsdotter; Elias Johansson; [2019]
    Keywords : Thomas Hobbes; American Foreign Policy; Political Thought; International Relations; Realism; National Security Strategy; International Morality; Anarchy; Donald Trump; Barack Obama;

    Abstract : The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been identified as the reason for a large shift in American foreign policy towards a doctrine closer to that of political realism. This claim has led us to examine if this transformation could be detected and described if we analyzed and compared Trump’s foreign policy doctrine with his predecessor, Barack Obama, through the lens Thomas Hobbes, whose ideas are at the core of the three modern schools of political realism. READ MORE