Doug Stokes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3776203 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Doug Stokes |
| NOMBRES | Doug |
| APELLIDO | Stokes |
| FIRMA | STOKES D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Exeter |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1961 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From regulatory inertia to strategic vulnerability
This article uses neoclassical realism (NCR) to explain the United Kingdom’s ongoing failure to secure its critical mineral supply chains despite mounting systemic pressure from intensifying great-power competition. Structural realism predicts that states facing external threats will balance against adversaries. However, the UK exhibits a clear case of “under-balancing,” and maintains a dangerous dependence on China for materials indispensable to…
The United States, China and the WTO after Coronavirus
A hegemon can destroy its international regimes, but what happens when it does not possess the capacity to reconstitute a regime to its liking? Drawing on structural power theory, our article examines President Nixon’s historic attacks on the Bretton Woods international monetary regime to help illuminate President Trump’s attacks on the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In both cases regime destruction was driven to a large extent by a desire to co…
Operational Change and American Grand Strategy in the Context of the China Challenge
In spite of fiscal pressure at home and China’s continued rise abroad, the United States shows no signs of reversing its costly grand strategy of deep engagement. In the context of America’s relative decline, we evaluate existing proposals to ease pressure on the United States. We argue that the key aspects of American decline are often operational rather than strategic in nature; consequently that the undifferentiated fashion in which rise and d…
Introduction
This work examines how domestic politics and culture shape US foreign policy, with particular emphasis on the role of institutions and processes. It considers the ways in which pressure groups and elites determine influence what the United States does abroad, the importance of regional shifts and media and their impact on the making of US foreign policy, and US relations with Europe, the Middle East, Russia, the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America…
US Foreign Policy
US Foreign Policy provides a perspective on US foreign policy that is critical and connected. This text aims to help with the critically assessment of US foreign policy, presenting the reader with diverse political perspectives and giving them the tools to come to their own conclusions. Carefully developed ‘major debates’ and ‘controversies’ features help readers to connect theory with the real-world politics. As policy continues to change before…
UK Strategy in the Gulf and Middle East after American Retrenchment
This paper considers the impact of the possible relative decline of the U.S. and its engagement in the Middle East and the Gulf in particular. US disengagement started under the Obama administration and seems to be continuing under the Trump administration. Applying theories of ‘rival hegemonic transition,’ possible post-Amercan successors are identified. In particular, the UK’s intents, capabilities, and strategies as it returns ‘East of Suez’ a…
Beyond balancing? Intrastate conflict and US grand strategy
Grand strategic theorists share an historical emphasis on interstate conflict, yet in contrast to the more frequent intrastate conflicts, these represent only 7 of the some 273 US military deployments since 1900. We argue that these intrastate conflicts limit the utility of regional balances of power in mitigating forms of conflict that the US may consider inimical to its national security interests. When considering potential changes to US force…
Trump, American hegemony and the future of the liberal international order
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this record
Introduction
The Trump presidency appears to personify, along with Britain's vote to withdraw from the European Union, a sense of deep crisis in the United States-led liberal international order (LIO). The two states that conceived and constructed a whole array of international institutions after 1945 now seem to be rejecting that order, or at the very least, demanding that its institutions either be reformed or recalibrated to better suit their purposes. How…
Security leverage, structural power and US strategy in east Asia
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this record
US oil strategy in the Caspian Basin
President Obama has continued to emphasise the strategic importance of stable energy supplies to US national security interests, with the oil-rich Central Asian region a key part of global energy markets. This region has seen significant economic and strategic inroads by the United States over the last decade in a broad attempt to integrate it within the US-led liberal order. This article examines these policy developments and draws upon theoreti…
Foucault and International Relations
Achilles’ deal
Towards the end of 2012, the US budget deficit stayed above US$1 trillion for the fourth year in a row. In the absence of the dollar's international reserve currency status, foreigners' willingness to purchase US debt would diminish sharply. 'Declinists' have argued that this Achilles' heel of US power has become increasingly fragile, with the 2008 financial crisis further eroding US monetary privileges and bearing profound implications for inter…
Transatlantic triage? European and UK ‘grand strategy’ after the US rebalance to Asia
Transition in the Middle East, the ongoing effects of the global financial crisis and the United States' rebalance to Asia are key trends that will have an impact on transatlantic relations and European defence. As US priorities shift, a common European 'grand strategy' could encourage the development of a shared vision to help Europe order its priorities and begin to respond to the new, post-austerity context of world politics and shrinking defe…
US foreign policy
Foucault and international relations
1. Editorial Introduction Nicholas J. Kiersey and Jason R. Weidner 2. Neoliberal Political Economy and the Subjectivity of Crisis: Why Governmentality is Not Hollow Nicholas J. Kiersey 3. Governmentality, Capitalism, and Subjectivity Jason R. Weidner 4. Governmentality of What? Populations, States and International Organisations Jonathan Joseph 5. Foucault's Concept of Power and the Global Discourse of Human Rights Ivan Manokha 6. Hobbes, War, Mo…
Globalizing West African oil
This article examines the nature of US oil intervention in West Africa and in particular the ways in which US strategic policy is increasingly being wedded to energy security. It argues that academic debates of a ‘new oil imperialism’ overplays the geostrategic dimensions of US policy, which in turn underplays the forms of globalization promoted by Washington in the postwar world. Specifically, the US has long sought to ‘transnationalize’ economi…
Critical realism and historical materialism as resources for critical terrorism studies
Critical Terrorism Studies can be strengthened by scholarship that draws on a combination of critical realism (CR) and historical materialism (HM). CR relates epistemological relativism (we can know the social only indirectly through our interpretation of it) to ontological realism (there is a powerfully influential social reality that includes but is much more than our knowledge claims about it) through judgemental rationalism (knowledge claims …
The War Gamble
Many commentators in the media and academia have viewed the US invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq as an irrational blunder. In contrast, this article argues that the Iraq war was in fact an entirely rational, but high-stakes ‘war gamble’ designed to preserve US hegemony using its strategic primacy. The article examines the key interests that drove this war gamble, as well as some of the developments and challenges for US policy that have …
Ideas and Avocados
Blood for oil? Global capital, counter-insurgency and the dual logic of American energy security
The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq coupled with the increased militarisation of international relations as part of the ‘war on terror’ has led to the development of a ‘blood for oil’ thesis that posits the centrality of oil and the economic interests of US oil corporations to American intervention in the Third World. This article argues that this thesis, whilst correct in identifying the importance of energy to US intervention, is not suf…
Iron Fists in Iron Gloves’
Most analysts of US post-cold war policy in Colombia argue that the US has switched from targeting Communist guerrillas to a war on drugs and a new war on terror. Contrary to these claims this article shows that the US continues to back Colombian counter-insurgency efforts which essentially amount to a strategy of state terrorism under a democratic façade (terrorocracy). Moreover, this policy continues to be pursued because the US has long employ…
The Heart of Empire? Theorising US empire in an era of transnational capitalism
Contemporary critical theorising on US Empire tends to diverge in two ways. First, more traditional approaches tend to foreground the national basis of the USA's imperial project and the subsequent ongoing inter-imperial rivalry inherent between rival capitalist states and regions. A second ‘global-capitalist’ approach rejects the notion of US Empire and instead posits the transcendence of a nationally based imperialism in favour of an increasing…
Countering the Soviet Threat? An Analysis of the Justifications for US Military Assistance to El Salvador, 1979–92
From 1979 to 1992, the US supported the El Salvadorian government in its counter-insurgency war. The insurgents were characterized by the US as Soviet backed communists. US support for the El Salvadorian government was sold as supporting a pro-US ally to contain Soviet expansionism within Central America. This article examines the documentation that the US used to substantiate this justification, and argues that the facts and interpretations that…
US foreign policy
HISTORICAL CONTEXTS INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD KEY ISSUES FUTURES AND SCENARIOS
US Foreign Policy
US Foreign Policy provides a perspective on US foreign policy that is critical and connected. This text aims to help with the critically assessment of US foreign policy, presenting the reader with diverse political perspectives and giving them the tools to come to their own conclusions. Carefully developed ‘major debates’ and ‘controversies’ features help readers to connect theory with the real-world politics. As policy continues to change before…
Critical realism and historical materialism as resources for critical terrorism studies
Critical Terrorism Studies can be strengthened by scholarship that draws on a combination of critical realism (CR) and historical materialism (HM). CR relates epistemological relativism (we can know the social only indirectly through our interpretation of it) to ontological realism (there is a powerfully influential social reality that includes but is much more than our knowledge claims about it) through judgemental rationalism (knowledge claims …
Trump, American hegemony and the future of the liberal international order
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this record
Achilles’ deal
Towards the end of 2012, the US budget deficit stayed above US$1 trillion for the fourth year in a row. In the absence of the dollar's international reserve currency status, foreigners' willingness to purchase US debt would diminish sharply. 'Declinists' have argued that this Achilles' heel of US power has become increasingly fragile, with the 2008 financial crisis further eroding US monetary privileges and bearing profound implications for inter…
Blood for oil? Global capital, counter-insurgency and the dual logic of American energy security
The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq coupled with the increased militarisation of international relations as part of the ‘war on terror’ has led to the development of a ‘blood for oil’ thesis that posits the centrality of oil and the economic interests of US oil corporations to American intervention in the Third World. This article argues that this thesis, whilst correct in identifying the importance of energy to US intervention, is not suf…
The Heart of Empire? Theorising US empire in an era of transnational capitalism
Contemporary critical theorising on US Empire tends to diverge in two ways. First, more traditional approaches tend to foreground the national basis of the USA's imperial project and the subsequent ongoing inter-imperial rivalry inherent between rival capitalist states and regions. A second ‘global-capitalist’ approach rejects the notion of US Empire and instead posits the transcendence of a nationally based imperialism in favour of an increasing…
Better lead than bread? A critical analysis of the US's plan Colombia
Colombia's continuing 35‐year civil war has claimed over 300,000 lives. Plan Colombia is a $1.3 billion dollar US military aid package to the Colombian military. It is the largest international intervention into Colombia's civil war and will make Colombia the third largest US military aid recipient in the world today. The US government claims the aid will be used to wage a war on drugs against Colombia's ‘narco‐guerrillas’ as 90 per cent of all c…
Security leverage, structural power and US strategy in east Asia
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this record
Transatlantic triage? European and UK ‘grand strategy’ after the US rebalance to Asia
Transition in the Middle East, the ongoing effects of the global financial crisis and the United States' rebalance to Asia are key trends that will have an impact on transatlantic relations and European defence. As US priorities shift, a common European 'grand strategy' could encourage the development of a shared vision to help Europe order its priorities and begin to respond to the new, post-austerity context of world politics and shrinking defe…
Iron Fists in Iron Gloves’
Most analysts of US post-cold war policy in Colombia argue that the US has switched from targeting Communist guerrillas to a war on drugs and a new war on terror. Contrary to these claims this article shows that the US continues to back Colombian counter-insurgency efforts which essentially amount to a strategy of state terrorism under a democratic façade (terrorocracy). Moreover, this policy continues to be pursued because the US has long employ…
Why the end of the Cold War doesn't matter
Orthodox narratives of US foreign policy have been employed as uncontested modes of historical interpretation with US post-Cold War foreign policy in the Third World characterised by discontinuity from its earlier Cold War objectives. Chomsky's work adopts an alternative revisionist historiography that views US post-Cold War foreign policy as characterised by continuity with its earlier Cold War objectives. This article examines the continuities …
The United States, China and the WTO after Coronavirus
A hegemon can destroy its international regimes, but what happens when it does not possess the capacity to reconstitute a regime to its liking? Drawing on structural power theory, our article examines President Nixon’s historic attacks on the Bretton Woods international monetary regime to help illuminate President Trump’s attacks on the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In both cases regime destruction was driven to a large extent by a desire to co…
Introduction
The Trump presidency appears to personify, along with Britain's vote to withdraw from the European Union, a sense of deep crisis in the United States-led liberal international order (LIO). The two states that conceived and constructed a whole array of international institutions after 1945 now seem to be rejecting that order, or at the very least, demanding that its institutions either be reformed or recalibrated to better suit their purposes. How…
The War Gamble
Many commentators in the media and academia have viewed the US invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq as an irrational blunder. In contrast, this article argues that the Iraq war was in fact an entirely rational, but high-stakes ‘war gamble’ designed to preserve US hegemony using its strategic primacy. The article examines the key interests that drove this war gamble, as well as some of the developments and challenges for US policy that have …
Ideas and Avocados
Countering the Soviet Threat? An Analysis of the Justifications for US Military Assistance to El Salvador, 1979–92
From 1979 to 1992, the US supported the El Salvadorian government in its counter-insurgency war. The insurgents were characterized by the US as Soviet backed communists. US support for the El Salvadorian government was sold as supporting a pro-US ally to contain Soviet expansionism within Central America. This article examines the documentation that the US used to substantiate this justification, and argues that the facts and interpretations that…
The First State Elections in 1836
Better lead than bread? A critical analysis of the US's plan Colombia
Colombia's continuing 35‐year civil war has claimed over 300,000 lives. Plan Colombia is a $1.3 billion dollar US military aid package to the Colombian military. It is the largest international intervention into Colombia's civil war and will make Colombia the third largest US military aid recipient in the world today. The US government claims the aid will be used to wage a war on drugs against Colombia's ‘narco‐guerrillas’ as 90 per cent of all c…
Countering the Soviet Threat? An Analysis of the Justifications for US Military Assistance to El Salvador, 1979–92
From 1979 to 1992, the US supported the El Salvadorian government in its counter-insurgency war. The insurgents were characterized by the US as Soviet backed communists. US support for the El Salvadorian government was sold as supporting a pro-US ally to contain Soviet expansionism within Central America. This article examines the documentation that the US used to substantiate this justification, and argues that the facts and interpretations that…
Why the end of the Cold War doesn't matter
Orthodox narratives of US foreign policy have been employed as uncontested modes of historical interpretation with US post-Cold War foreign policy in the Third World characterised by discontinuity from its earlier Cold War objectives. Chomsky's work adopts an alternative revisionist historiography that views US post-Cold War foreign policy as characterised by continuity with its earlier Cold War objectives. This article examines the continuities …
The Heart of Empire? Theorising US empire in an era of transnational capitalism
Contemporary critical theorising on US Empire tends to diverge in two ways. First, more traditional approaches tend to foreground the national basis of the USA's imperial project and the subsequent ongoing inter-imperial rivalry inherent between rival capitalist states and regions. A second ‘global-capitalist’ approach rejects the notion of US Empire and instead posits the transcendence of a nationally based imperialism in favour of an increasing…
Iron Fists in Iron Gloves’
Most analysts of US post-cold war policy in Colombia argue that the US has switched from targeting Communist guerrillas to a war on drugs and a new war on terror. Contrary to these claims this article shows that the US continues to back Colombian counter-insurgency efforts which essentially amount to a strategy of state terrorism under a democratic façade (terrorocracy). Moreover, this policy continues to be pursued because the US has long employ…
Blood for oil? Global capital, counter-insurgency and the dual logic of American energy security
The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq coupled with the increased militarisation of international relations as part of the ‘war on terror’ has led to the development of a ‘blood for oil’ thesis that posits the centrality of oil and the economic interests of US oil corporations to American intervention in the Third World. This article argues that this thesis, whilst correct in identifying the importance of energy to US intervention, is not suf…
The War Gamble
Many commentators in the media and academia have viewed the US invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq as an irrational blunder. In contrast, this article argues that the Iraq war was in fact an entirely rational, but high-stakes ‘war gamble’ designed to preserve US hegemony using its strategic primacy. The article examines the key interests that drove this war gamble, as well as some of the developments and challenges for US policy that have …
Ideas and Avocados
Foucault and international relations
1. Editorial Introduction Nicholas J. Kiersey and Jason R. Weidner 2. Neoliberal Political Economy and the Subjectivity of Crisis: Why Governmentality is Not Hollow Nicholas J. Kiersey 3. Governmentality, Capitalism, and Subjectivity Jason R. Weidner 4. Governmentality of What? Populations, States and International Organisations Jonathan Joseph 5. Foucault's Concept of Power and the Global Discourse of Human Rights Ivan Manokha 6. Hobbes, War, Mo…
Globalizing West African oil
This article examines the nature of US oil intervention in West Africa and in particular the ways in which US strategic policy is increasingly being wedded to energy security. It argues that academic debates of a ‘new oil imperialism’ overplays the geostrategic dimensions of US policy, which in turn underplays the forms of globalization promoted by Washington in the postwar world. Specifically, the US has long sought to ‘transnationalize’ economi…
Critical realism and historical materialism as resources for critical terrorism studies
Critical Terrorism Studies can be strengthened by scholarship that draws on a combination of critical realism (CR) and historical materialism (HM). CR relates epistemological relativism (we can know the social only indirectly through our interpretation of it) to ontological realism (there is a powerfully influential social reality that includes but is much more than our knowledge claims about it) through judgemental rationalism (knowledge claims …
US foreign policy
Foucault and International Relations
Achilles’ deal
Towards the end of 2012, the US budget deficit stayed above US$1 trillion for the fourth year in a row. In the absence of the dollar's international reserve currency status, foreigners' willingness to purchase US debt would diminish sharply. 'Declinists' have argued that this Achilles' heel of US power has become increasingly fragile, with the 2008 financial crisis further eroding US monetary privileges and bearing profound implications for inter…
Transatlantic triage? European and UK ‘grand strategy’ after the US rebalance to Asia
Transition in the Middle East, the ongoing effects of the global financial crisis and the United States' rebalance to Asia are key trends that will have an impact on transatlantic relations and European defence. As US priorities shift, a common European 'grand strategy' could encourage the development of a shared vision to help Europe order its priorities and begin to respond to the new, post-austerity context of world politics and shrinking defe…
US oil strategy in the Caspian Basin
President Obama has continued to emphasise the strategic importance of stable energy supplies to US national security interests, with the oil-rich Central Asian region a key part of global energy markets. This region has seen significant economic and strategic inroads by the United States over the last decade in a broad attempt to integrate it within the US-led liberal order. This article examines these policy developments and draws upon theoreti…
Security leverage, structural power and US strategy in east Asia
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this record
Introduction
This work examines how domestic politics and culture shape US foreign policy, with particular emphasis on the role of institutions and processes. It considers the ways in which pressure groups and elites determine influence what the United States does abroad, the importance of regional shifts and media and their impact on the making of US foreign policy, and US relations with Europe, the Middle East, Russia, the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America…
US Foreign Policy
US Foreign Policy provides a perspective on US foreign policy that is critical and connected. This text aims to help with the critically assessment of US foreign policy, presenting the reader with diverse political perspectives and giving them the tools to come to their own conclusions. Carefully developed ‘major debates’ and ‘controversies’ features help readers to connect theory with the real-world politics. As policy continues to change before…
UK Strategy in the Gulf and Middle East after American Retrenchment
This paper considers the impact of the possible relative decline of the U.S. and its engagement in the Middle East and the Gulf in particular. US disengagement started under the Obama administration and seems to be continuing under the Trump administration. Applying theories of ‘rival hegemonic transition,’ possible post-Amercan successors are identified. In particular, the UK’s intents, capabilities, and strategies as it returns ‘East of Suez’ a…
Beyond balancing? Intrastate conflict and US grand strategy
Grand strategic theorists share an historical emphasis on interstate conflict, yet in contrast to the more frequent intrastate conflicts, these represent only 7 of the some 273 US military deployments since 1900. We argue that these intrastate conflicts limit the utility of regional balances of power in mitigating forms of conflict that the US may consider inimical to its national security interests. When considering potential changes to US force…
Trump, American hegemony and the future of the liberal international order
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this record
Introduction
The Trump presidency appears to personify, along with Britain's vote to withdraw from the European Union, a sense of deep crisis in the United States-led liberal international order (LIO). The two states that conceived and constructed a whole array of international institutions after 1945 now seem to be rejecting that order, or at the very least, demanding that its institutions either be reformed or recalibrated to better suit their purposes. How…
Operational Change and American Grand Strategy in the Context of the China Challenge
In spite of fiscal pressure at home and China’s continued rise abroad, the United States shows no signs of reversing its costly grand strategy of deep engagement. In the context of America’s relative decline, we evaluate existing proposals to ease pressure on the United States. We argue that the key aspects of American decline are often operational rather than strategic in nature; consequently that the undifferentiated fashion in which rise and d…
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