The Policy Makers Shaping American Foreign Policy from 1947 to the Present

by Nelson, Anna Kasten; Gardner, Lloyd; LaFeber, Walter; Prados, John; Rearden, Steven L.; Tudda, Chris; Vaughan, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780742550414
• ISBN10: 0742550419
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book is about U.S. policy makers who have wielded enormous influence, largely behind the scenes, since the end of World War II. The advent of the Cold War brought new problems of national security for the United States. As a result, U.S. presidents no longer sat down with their secretaries of state to determine the nation's foreign policy. Instead, postwar chief executives reached out to individuals in the intelligence and military organizations and, increasingly, to advisers in the White House. The Policy Makers examines seven such advisers-from public servants in the state department to a CIA director and U.S. senators-as well as the policies each adviser influenced. By focusing on individuals whose policy making role was often unknown to the public, Anna Kasten Nelson and her contributors shed light on the myriad ways in which the postwar foreign policy of the United States has been shaped, sometimes in ways very damaging to the nation's security. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Paul H. Nitze and NSC 68: "Militarizing" the Cold War	p. 5
"The Devil's Advocate": Robert Bowie, Western European Integration, and the German Problem, 1953-1954	p. 29
Walt Whitman Rostow: Hawkeyed Optimist	p. 59
Senator Henry Jackson and the Demise of Detente	p. 83
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Afghanistan	p. 107
The Wave Maker: Bill Casey in the Reagan Years	p. 131
Colin Powell: The Rise and Fall of the Powell Doctrine	p. 153
Index	p. 179
About the Contributors	p. 187
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