US Foreign Policy and Presidential Leadership in an Age of Strategic Uncertainty

As the international system undergoes its most profound reordering since the end of the Cold War, the assumptions that once anchored America’s global role are no longer analytically sufficient.Intensifying great-power rivalry, the weaponization of economic leverage, and accelerating geoeconomic polarization are reshaping the strategic environment faster than inherited explanatory frames can account for.This book advances a new conceptual architecture for interpreting US foreign policy - transformative depth - to distinguish among the policies that presidential administrations employ to reconstitute, reform, or stabilize the international order, or to minimize US engagement in its management.The framework clarifies the deeper logics through which the United States positions herself amid a tumultuous global transformation. At the center of the study is a reconsideration of the modern presidency as a structurally pivotal force during periods of systemic inflection.Through a comparative ex