Divided America on the World Stage : Broken Government and Foreign Policy

by Wiarda, Howard J.

• ISBN13: 9781597972932
• ISBN10: 1597972932
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-30
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

Howard J. Wiarda argues that our present foreign polity crisis is attributable to the kind of society we have become over a forty-year period: more divided, fragmented, and dysfunctional - socially, economically, culturally, and politically.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Crisis and Calamity in American Foreign Policy	p. 1
Models of Foreign Policymaking	p. 17
Who Are We? American Political Culture in Transition	p. 4l
Public Opinion and Foreign Policy	p. 69
The Media and Foreign Policy	p. 99
Interest Groups and Foreign Policy	p. 125
Parties, Politics, and Foreign Policy	p. 155
The New Powerhouses: Think Tanks and Foreign Policy	p. 179
Washington Social Life and Foreign Policy	p. 211
Congress: The Broken Branch	p. 231
Bureaucratic Politics: Turf Battles Among Agencies	p. 257
The National Security Council: At the Apex of the System	p. 281
The Presidency and Foreign Policy	p. 297
Conclusion: Broken Government-Can It Be Fixed?	p. 325
Index	p. 335
About the Author	p. 349
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