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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.
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"The book does an excellent job from the origins of the U. S. to the Cold War?.and of illustrating the varied and interactive 'inputs' in the U. S. foreign policy process."
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"AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY is very thorough and skillfully written?.I can easily see why it is so successful. Few texts are as comprehensive, up to date in their citations of relevant research, and written with such clarity."
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"This text is clearly written, well organized and comprehensive?.It is a fine book and works well as a free-standing text for intermediate courses in American foreign policy."
Synopsis
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY is the market leader for the American foreign policy course. Guiding students through 21st century American foreign policy by placing contemporary issues, debates, challenges, and opportunities in their historic context, this text helps students understand and assess the forces underlying continuity and change. This Sixth Edition retains the book's effective analytical framework. Harnessing the conceptual, theoretical, and historical components that facilitate analysis of American foreign policy, the text maintains that five sources--international, societal, governmental, role, and individual--collectively influence decisions about foreign policy goals and the means chosen to realize them. Readers will come away from this text with knowledge of how the enduring principles, values and interests of the United States (peace and prosperity, stability and security, democracy and defense) define and reinforce the ability of policymakers to respond to changes in the international environment.
Synopsis
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY is the market leader for the American foreign policy course. Guiding students through 21st century American foreign policy by placing contemporary issues, debates, challenges, and opportunities in their historic context, this text helps students understand and assess the forces underlying continuity and change. This Sixth Edition retains the book's effective analytical framework. Harnessing the conceptual, theoretical, and historical components that facilitate analysis of American foreign policy, the text maintains that five sources--international, societal, governmental, role, and individual--collectively influence decisions about foreign policy goals and the means chosen to realize them. Readers will come away from this text with knowledge of how the enduring principles, values and interests of the United States (peace and prosperity, stability and security, democracy and defense) define and reinforce the ability of policymakers to respond to changes in the international environment.
About the Author
'Eugene R. Wittkopf is the R. Downs Poindexter Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University (LSU). He has also held appointments at the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina. He received his doctorate from The Maxwell School of CitizenshipandPublic Affairs at Syracuse University. He has published more than thirty books on international politics and foreign policy and several dozen refereed articles in professional journals and chapters in books. He has held offices in professional associations and served on the editorial boards of numerous professional journals. In 2002 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Foreign Policy Section of the International Studies Association. Earlier, Professor Wittkopf was named the 1996 Distinguished Research Master of Arts, Humanities, and Social Studies at Louisiana State University. This is the highest award given by the LSU in recognition of faculty contributions to research and scholarship.Charles W. Kegley, Jr. is the Corporate Secretary of the Carnegie Council for Thics in International Affairs and the Pearce Professor of International Relations Emeritus at the University of South Carolina. A graduate of American University and Syracuse University, and a Pew faculty Fellow at Harvard University, Kegley is a past president of the International Studies Association (1993-1994) and has held faculty appointments at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, the People\'s University of China, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. Recently published among his four dozen books are WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION (11th edition, 2007) and THE NEW GLOBAL TERRORISM (2003). He has also published his primary research in many scholarly journals.
Together Kegley and Raymond have coauthored AFTER IRAQ: THE IMPERILED AMERICAN IMPERIUM (2007), FROM WAR TO PEACE: FATEFUL DECISIONS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS (2002); EXORCISING THE GHOST OF WESTPHALIA: BUILDING INTERNATIONAL PEACE IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM (2002), HOW NATIONS MAKE PEACE (1999), A MULTIPOLAR PEACE? GREAT-POWER POLITICS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (1994), and WHEN TRUST BREAKS DOWN: ALLIANCE NORMS AND WORLD POLITICS (1990). The have also coedited INTERNATIONAL EVENTS AND THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN POLICY (1975) and coauthored over two dozen articles in such periodicals as the \"International Studies Quarterly,\" \"The Journal of Conflict Resolution,\" \"The Journal of Politics,\" \"The Journal of Peace Research,\" \"International Interactions,\" and \"The Harvard International Review.\"James M. Scott is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. His areas of specialization include foreign policy analysis and international relations, with particular emphasis on U.S. foreign policymaking and the domestic sources of foreign policy. He is author or editor of four books, over 40 articles, book chapters, review essays, and other publications. He has been President of the Foreign Policy Analysis section and President of the Midwest region of the International Studies Association?where he has also served as conference organizer for both sections and has been a two-time winner of the Klingberg Award for Outstanding Faculty Paper at the ISA Midwest Annual Meeting. Since 1996, he has received over two dozen awards from students and peers for his outstanding teaching and research, including his institution\'s highest awards for scholarship in 2000 and 2001. Since 2005, he has been Director of the Democracy and World Politics Summer Research Program, a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates.'
Table of Contents
1. In Search of American Foreign Policy: A Thematic Introduction. 2. Pattern and Process in American Foreign Policy: An Analytical Perspective. 3. Principle, Power, and Pragmatism: The Goals of the American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective. 4. Instruments of Global Influence: Military Might and Interventionism. 5. Instruments of Global Influence: Covert Activities, Foreign Aid, Sanctions and Public Diplomacy. 6. Principle, Power and Pragmatism in the Twenty-First Century: The International Political System in Transition. 7. World Political Economy in Transition: Opportunities and Constraints in a Globalizing World Political Economy. 8. Americans' Values, Beliefs and Preferences: Political Culture and Public Opinion in Foreign Policy. 9. The Transmission of Values, Beliefs and Preferences: Interest Groups, Mass Media and Presidential Elections. 10. Presidential Preeminence in Foreign Policy Making. 11. The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy Making. 12. Congress and Foreign Policy Making. 13. The Process of Decision Making: Roles, Rationality, and the Impact of Bureaucratic Organizations. 14. Leader Characteristics and Foreign Policy Performance. 15. Beyond Bush: The Future of American Foreign Policy.