The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence

by Wittkopf, Eugene R.; McCormick, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780742547407
• ISBN10: 074254740X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence is a collection of current readings on how the domestic environment impacts American foreign policy today. The volume contains essays by some of the best known scholars on U.S. foreign policy and provides articles that assess the effects of the larger societal environment, the impact of political institutions, and the roles of individuals and bureaucracies on American foreign policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy	p. 1
The Societal Environment	p. 17
Soft Power and American Foreign Policy	p. 29
Why Don't They Like Us? How America Has Become the Object of Much of the Planet's Genuine Grievances-and Displaced Discontent	p. 45
The Benefits of Goliath	p. 55
Intermestic Interests and U.S. Policy toward Cuba	p. 65
The Israel Lobby	p. 81
American Veterans in Government and the Use of Force	p. 97
The Iraq Syndrome	p. 115
External Affairs and the Electoral Connection	p. 125
The Institutional Setting	p. 141
Person and Office: Presidents, the Presidency, and Foreign Policy	p. 159
Costly Presidential Wars	p. 169
How National Security Advisers See Their Role	p. 185
The Shifting Pendulum of Power: Executive-Legislative Relations on American Foreign Policy	p. 199
The Craft of Diplomacy	p. 213
The Struggle to Transform the Military	p. 223
Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq	p. 235
The Homeland Security Bureaucracy	p. 247
Triumph of Globalism: American Trade Politics	p. 259
Decision Makers and Their Policymaking Positions	p. 277
How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy	p. 291
Policy Preferences and Bureaucratic Position: The Case of the American Hostage Rescue Mission	p. 303
Roles, Politics, and the Survival of the V-22 Osprey	p. 319
NATO Expansion: The Anatomy of a Decision	p. 339
Sources of Humanitarian Intervention: Beliefs, Information, and Advocacy in U.S. Decisions on Somalia and Bosnia	p. 355
Last Stand	p. 373
Assessing the Personality of George W. Bush	p. 385
Index	p. 399
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 419
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