America's foreign policy in a changing world
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America's foreign policy in a changing world
HarperCollins College Publishers, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This comprehensive text focuses on the policy, process, historical and problem-oriented aspects of American foreign policy. Its conceptual framework advances four cardinal principles as analytical tools to help guide and examine policy choice. In their assessment of actual policy decisions, the authors explore alternatives that were (or might have been) considered, and review the results of those decisions. This book also attempts to look forward. It emphasizes the importance of initial policy choices in giving a sense of direction and commitment. It stresses perspective and careful analysis before policy decision, instead of using the kind of shorthand guidelines that have been determining American policy. Finally, the text examines how much of the United States's foreign policy is conditioned by the very nature of international relations.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The framework: foreign policy decisions - a beginning
- foreign policy and national interests
- a nation in search of a proper role. Part 2 Formulating foreign policy - perceptions and organization: the intellectual element of foreign policy - perspectives
- the organizational element - achieving co-ordination. Part 3 How Washington decides foreign policy issues: the President and Congress
- policymaking and bureaucracy
- the public context. Part 4 Cold War problems: the Cold War and the Korean War
- escalating tension - Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- into and out of Vietnam
- a new approach to Cold War problems
- the last decade of the Cold War
- summing up the book so far. Part 5 Contemporary problems in US foreign policy: the Societ Union dissolved and Eastern Europe freed - implications
- the European Community
- ancient cultures and enduring enmities - the Middle East
- Japan and the future of Asia
- "new" problems on the agenda
- guidelines for American foreign policy in a complex world.
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