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9780321005076

American Foreign Policy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780321005076

  • ISBN10:

    0321005074

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-02-01
  • Publisher: Longman Pub Group
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This thought -- provoking reader draws to 28 representative essays from major schools of thought on the forces that shape American foreign policy, providing a basis for both the explanation and evaluation of that policy. It includes four new essays tied to critical topics such as emerging democracies, executive-congressional relations civil military relations, and foreign policy decisions being driven by business interests.

Table of Contents

PREFACE IX
INTRODUCTION 1(12)
PART ONE THE PROBLEM OF EXPLANATION 13(52)
JAMES R. KURTH
A Widening Gyre: The Logic of American Weapons Procurement
14(23)
OLE R. HOLSTI
Models of International Relations and Foreign Policy
37(28)
PART TWO INTERNATIONAL SOURCES OF FOREIGN POLICY 65(74)
KENNETH WALTZ
Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power
67(23)
MICHAEL MASTANDUNO
DAVID A. LAKE
G. JOHN IKENBERRY
Toward a Realist Theory of State Action
90(21)
MELVYN P. LEFFLER
The American Conception of National Security and the Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945-1948
111(28)
PART THREE CAPITALISM, CLASS, AND FOREIGN POLICY 139(80)
JAMES R. KURTH
The Political Consequences of the Product Cycle: Industrial History and Political Outcomes
141(30)
JEFF FRIEDEN
Sectoral Conflict and U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 1914-1940
171(29)
FRED BLOCK
Economic Instability and Military Strength: The Paradoxes of the 1950 Rearmament Decision
200(19)
PART FOUR NATIONAL VALUES, DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, AND FOREIGN POLICY 219(94)
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
American Ideals versus American Institutions
221(33)
STEPHEN D. KRASNER
Policy Making in a Weak State
254(25)
MICHAEL MASTANDUNO
The United States Political System and International Leadership: A "Decidedly Inferior" Form of Government?
279(20)
STROBE TOLBOTT
Democracy and the National Interest
299(14)
PART FIVE PUBLIC OPINION, POLICY LEGITIMACY, AND SECTIONAL CONFLICT 313(98)
MICHAEL ROSKIN
From Pearl Harbor to Vietnam: Shifting Generational Paradigms and Foreign Policy
315(21)
ALEXANDER L. GEORGE
Domestic Constraints on Regime Change in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Need for Policy Legitimacy
336(25)
OLE R. HOLSTI
Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: Challenges to the Almond-Lippmann Consensus
361(32)
PETER TRUBOWITZ
Political Conflict and Foreign Policy in the United States: A Geographical Interpretation
393(18)
PART SIX BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE 411(70)
GRAHAM T. ALLISON
Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis
413(45)
STEPHEN D. KRASNER
Are Bureaucracies Important? (Or Allison Wonderland)
458(13)
JAMES C. THOMSON, JR.
How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy
471(10)
PART SEVEN PERCEPTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 481(80)
ROBERT JERVIS
Hypotheses on Misperception
483(21)
PHILIP E. TETLOCK
CHARLES B. MCGUIRE, JR.
Cognitive Perspectives on Foreign Policy
504(19)
YUEN FOONG KHONG
Seduction by Analogy in Vietnam: The Malaya and Korea Analogies
523(10)
IRVING L. JANIS
Escalation of the Vietnam War: How Could It Happen
533(28)
PART EIGHT AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE COLD WAR 561
CHRISTOPHER LAYNE
From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's Future Grand Strategy
563(33)
JOSEF JOFFE
"Bismarck" or "Britain"? Toward an American Grand Strategy after Bipolarity
596(19)
G. JOHN IKENBERRY
The Myth of Post-Cold War Chaos
615

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