Ideals, Interests, and U.S. Foreign Policy from George H. W. Bush to Donald Trump

Ronald Powaski is Adjunct Professor at Ashland University, USA, formerly teaching U.S. history at Cleveland State University. Among his published books are March to Armageddon: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Nuclear Arms Race, The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, and most recently, a two-volume study, American Presidential Statecraft.

• 1. Prologue: Interests Versus Ideals.- 2. Introduction.- 3. The "Enlightened Realism" of George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993.- 4. William Clinton: The Pragmatic Idealist, 1993-2001.- 5. George W. Bush, Realism and Neoconservatism, 2001-2009.- 6. Barack Obama, the Idealistic Realist, 2009-2017, Part I: The Middle East and East Asia.- 7. Barack Obama, the Idealistic Realist, 2009-2017, Part II: Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Global Problems.- 8. Donald Trump and “America First,” 2017-.