Defining the national interest : conflict and change in American foreign policy
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Defining the national interest : conflict and change in American foreign policy
（American politics and political economy）
University of Chicago Press, 1998
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 307-331
Includes index
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: cloth ISBN 9780226813028
Description
The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. This study asks why the nation's leaders find it so difficult to define the national interest. Peter Trubowitz offers a conception of American foreign policy and the domestic geopolitical forces that shape and animate it. Foreign policy conflict, he argues, is grounded in America's regional diversity. The uneven nature of America's integration into the world economy has made regionalism a potent force shaping the national interest. As Trubowitz shows, politicians from different parts of the country have consistently sought to equate their region's interests with that of the nation. Domestic conflict over how to define the "national interest" is the result. Challenging dominant accounts of American foreign policy-making, this text exemplifies how interdisciplinary scholarship can yield a deeper understanding of the connections between domestic and international change in an era of globalization.
Table of Contents
List of Tables List of Figures Preface Chapter One: Regional Conflict and Coalitions in the Making of American Foreign Policy Chapter Two: Sectional Conflict and the Great Debates of the 1890s Chapter Three: North-South Alliance and the Triumph of Internationalism in the 1930s Chapter Four: The Rise of the Sunbelt: America Resurgent in the 1980s Chapter Five: Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Notes Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226813035
Description
The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. This study asks why the nation's leaders find it so difficult to define the national interest. Peter Trubowitz offers a new and compelling conception of American foreign policy and the domestic geopolitical forces that shape and animate it. Foreign policy conflict, he argues, is grounded in America's regional diversity. The uneven nature of America's integration into the world economy has made regionalism a potent force shaping the national interest. As Trubowitz shows, politicians from different parts of the country have consistently sought to equate their region's interests with that of the nation. Domestic conflict over how to define the "national interest" is the result. Challenging dominant accounts of American foreign policy-making, this text exemplifies how interdisciplinary scholarship can yield a deeper understanding of the connections between domestic and international change in an era of globalization.
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