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48–49) and Bill Clinton’s first term of internationalism and multilateral action and second term that Lynch views as mirroring traditional Cold War–era foreign policy.

Bush’s “playing by the rules” and support of alliances (pp. The book’s discussion features major events and themes in post–Cold War presidencies from the senior Bush to Obama. The chapters are organized by themes, with many of them-like Iraq, terrorism, Russia, and China-reappearing throughout the book, making it easy to chart changes in policy regarding these issues. Furthermore, a concluding section attempts to place Trump’s presidency into this model of foreign policy evolution. Lynch organizes his book into chapters corresponding to the presidential administrations discussed, with each four-year term receiving a separate chapter. Lynch’s view is unlike that of many people who saw the US in decline since the end of the Cold War along with the rise of China and re-emergence of Russia and Europe on the international stage.

Second, American policy during this period was characterized by growth and successes, “owed to the adaption, not abandonment, of Cold War thinking in this supposedly new world” (p. First, the “shadow of the Cold War” continued to influence the foreign policy of presidential administrations after 1989, whether they realized it or not (p. It shows the post–Cold War period to be a continuation of rather than a split from Cold War–era policy. For example, Adam Garfinkle, a former Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, argued, “The problem with the Trump foreign policy, in short, is that it spurns the norms, multilateral institutions and legal apparatus of the ‘international community.’ ” However, Timothy Lynch, an associate professor of American politics at the University of Melbourne, presents a different interpretation of American foreign policy in his book In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. To many in the foreign policy realm, the presidency of Donald Trump was a dramatic shift in the traditional ideals of how the United States conducted international relations. Cambridge University Press, 2020, 262 pp. In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr.