US foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean : power politics and ideology under the sun / Spyridon N. Litsas.

Intro
Introduction
Contents
Chapter 1: The Theoretical Foundations of the U.S. Foreign Policy
1 Introduction
2 A Continental Country That Thought to Be an Island
3 The Three Pillars of Success
3.1 Individualism
3.2 Mobility
3.3 Exceptionalism
4 The Hamiltonian School of Thought
5 The Wilsonian School of Thought
6 The Jeffersonian School of Thought
7 The Jacksonian School of Thought
8 The Obamian School of Thought
9 Conclusions
References
Chapter 2: The U.S. in the Eastern Mediterranean: Historical and Political Considerations

1 Introduction
2 The U.S. and the Eastern Mediterranean: A Long and Steady Entanglement
3 The Barbary War of 1801-1805
4 The Truman Doctrine and the Eastern Mediterranean: The Beginning of a New Era
4.1 The Greek Case
4.2 The Turkish Case
4.3 Together We Stand
5 The Suez Crisis: New Ways vs. Old Habits
5.1 The Egyptian Conundrum
5.2 War Drums in Suez: The Climax of a Crisis That Never Meant to Occur
6 The Cradle of Democracy in Chains and the American Nonintervention
7 The Greek Junta and the American Nonintervention

8 The Imia Crisis and the Goal of Nonviolent Friction
8.1 A Problematic Relation Since the Early Beginning
8.2 Greece and Turkey: Parallel Courses of Profound Decadence
8.3 Imia: A Deep Interstate Crisis and the American Intervention
9 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Obama's Foreign Policy and the Arab Spring: The Cases of Egypt, Libya, and Syria
1 Introduction
2 The Arab Spring: A Conceptual Analysis
2.1 Second Image Analysis
2.2 Third Image Analysis
3 The U.S. and the Arab Spring in the Eastern Mediterranean: A General Approach

3.1 Even Monkeys Fall from Trees
3.2 Neither Able Nor Willing
4 The Egyptian Spring
5 The Libyan Spring
6 The Syrian Spring
7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: The Greek Crisis of 2015: A European Drama and an American Deus Ex Machina
1 Introduction
2 The Greek Crisis: A Sisyphean Condition
3 SYRIZA in Power: The Beginning of a New Start?
4 The Role of the American Factor in the Greek Crisis: Leading from Above
5 Conclusion
References

Chapter 5: The U.S. Facing the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Different Cases of China, Russia, and Turkey
1 Introduction
2 The Sino-American Competition in the Eastern Mediterranean
3 Russia vs. the U.S. in the Eastern Mediterranean: Moscow's Sui Generis Revisionism
4 The Turkish Neo-Revisionism in the Eastern Mediterranean
5 Conclusion
References
Epilogue
Index