The Obama doctrine іn the context of the US foreign policy evolution

The purpose of this article is to analyze the Obama doctrine in the context of the US foreign policy evolution since the Second World War. The American researchers suggest a vision of that evolution as a certain cycle of the US course in the world politics. Obama’s foreign policy was determined by two main factors: the internal economic situation and changes in the international environment. The combination of these factors led to the existence of multi-vector tendencies in the system of foreign policy decisions. In light of this, the development of a new concept of American world leadership was initiated at the political and academic levels in the United States. The article analyzes the results of the implementation of this concept.