Abstract

SOLLER, Diana. Strategic retrenchment or accommodation? Barack Obama's legacy for emerging powers and international order. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2016, n.51, pp.09-26. ISSN 1645-9199.

The epistemic community of IR has been affirming almost unanimously that the United States under Barack Obama had adopted a strategy of retreatment as answer to its decline and the rise other great powers. This article questions those positions by arguing that strategic restraint is easily confused with another strategy, accommodation, as they are very similar in the means, but very different in the ends. Restraint is all about rising back, while accommodation is about acceptance of the rise of other powers and to find ways to negotiate a new design for the international order that makes all actors satisfied - avoid power transition conflict. This paper will conclude that it is too soon to advance an answer to this issue, but tries to underline differences and outcomes for the two possible scenarios.

Keywords : Retrenchment; accommodation; Barack Obama; raisings powers; strategy.

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