The making of US foreign policy

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The making of US foreign policy

John Dumbrell, with a chapter by David M. Barret

Manchester University Press , Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1990

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This is a consideration of the major influences and developments in US foreign policy since the mid-60s that focuses upon the interaction between foreign policy institutions, public opinion, the changing international environment and substantive foreign policy. Primarily for non-American readers and researched in US archives, the book is written in the context both of the debate on US decline and the move to post-Cold War conditions.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The United States and international politics: the ideology of American foreign policy
  • international relations theory and the decline of American power
  • interpreting American foreign policy - national mission, realism, revisionism and theories of American imperialism. Part 2 Theories of foreign policy-making: rationality and its limits
  • overarching theory and comparative foreign policy
  • "middle-level" perspectives
  • foreign policy-making and theories of state power
  • concluding remarks. Part 3 Presidential foreign policy, David M.Barrett: introduction - a president chooses between war and peace
  • the founders, presidents and foreign policy
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and the growth of presidential power
  • Harry Truman and the modern American foreign policy presidency
  • Vietnam - a test of the limits of presidential dominance in foreign affairs
  • decision-making styles and choices of modern presidents
  • presidential leadership on foreign policy issues - recent president, from Nixon to Bush. Part 4 Executive branch foreign policy: National Security Adviser and Secretary of State
  • the State Department
  • the Pentagon. Part 5 Congress: determinants of congressional influence
  • the foreign policy Congress
  • Congress and US foreign policy since 1964
  • war powers, advice and consent
  • foreign aid and defence budgeting. Part 6 The intelligence community: The CIA from Truman to Reagan
  • covert operations
  • congressional control of the CIA
  • strategic intelligence and analysis. Part 7 Public opinion: public opinion on foreign policy issues
  • policy and public influence
  • American women and foreign policy
  • citizen lobbying - the case of the nuclear freeze movement
  • sensitized public opinion - the ethnic lobbies
  • the media and foreign policy. Part 8 Private and regional power: corporations and foreign policy
  • foreign policy elites
  • defence contractors and the "military industrial complex"
  • foreign policy by state and local governments. part 9 Two case studies and conclusion: case study - Anglo-American relations and the Vietnam War, 1964-1968
  • case study - President Carter's human rights policy with special reference to Argentina
  • reflections on the case studies.

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