American Foreign Policy Pattern and Process

by Wittkopf, Eugene R.; Jones, Christopher M.; Kegley, Jr., Charles W.

• ISBN13: 9780534603373
• ISBN10: 0534603378
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-30
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Now in its Seventh Edition, AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY has been thoroughly revised and updated to include several completely new sections, reflecting the most recent developments and scholarship related to American foreign policy. This Seventh Edition provides considerable attention to how the Bush administration sought to reshape national strategy, policies and structures; its domestic and international actions taken in the name of national security, and the immediate as well as possible long-term consequences of these developments. As in past editions, the Seventh Edition retains the book's proven and pedagogically valuable analytical framework. Harnessing the conceptual, theoretical, and historical components that facilitate an analysis of American foreign policy, this text maintains five sources-international, societal, governmental, role, and individual-that collectively influence decisions about foreign policy goals, and the means chosen to realize them. Offering readers extraordinary breadth, thoughtful discussion, and in-depth of coverage of past, present, and future American foreign policy, AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY will equip readers with a solid and well-informed understanding of the full range of domestic and global sources of influence that will challenge American foreign policy-makers in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

In Search of American Foreign Policy: A The matic Introduction

Pattern & Process in American Foreign Policy: An Analytical Perspective

Principle, Power, & Pragmatism: the Goals of the American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective

Instruments of Global Influence: Military Might & Interventionism

Instruments of Global Influence: Covert Activities, Foreign Aid, Sanctions & Public Diplomacy

Principle, Power & Pragmatism in the Twenty-First Century: the International Political System in Transition

World Political Economy in Transition: Opportunities & Constraints in a Globalizing World Political Economy

Americans' Values, Beliefs & Preferences: Political Culture & Public Opinion in Foreign Policy

The Transmission of Values, Beliefs & Preferences: Interest Groups, Mass Media & Presidential Elections

Presidential Preeminence in Foreign Policy Making

The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy Making

Congress and Foreign Policy Making

The Process of Decision Making: Roles, Rationality, & the Impact of Bureaucratic Organizations

Leader Characteristics and Foreign Policy Performance

Beyond Bush: the Future of American Foreign Policy

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