Synopses & Reviews
"A quiet, restrained, but expert and highly professional assessment of the relationship of foreign policy and the public in America." --Kirkus Reviews
"A definitive study that should be compulsory reading for students of U.S. foreign relations as well as for its practitioners in government, journalism, academia and politics." --Hans Tuch, Foreign Service Journal
"If foreign policy is your game, whether you're a player, a fan, a critic, or a student, keep this volume handy at your work station. It's a guide book, a how-to book, an insider's book, an outsider's book all in one. David Newsom has to be the ultimate professional in this vital American pastime." --William German, Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
"Out of his vast experience as a diplomat, scholar and interlocutor with the American press, David Newsom has written a thorough yet lively review of the many public and political factors that affect the making of U.S. foreign policy. He cites chapter and verse from Angola to Yugoslavia in explaining and analyzing the external pressures on contemporary U.S. diplomacy." --Don Oberdorfer, Journalist-in-residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Former Washington Post diplomatic correspondent
How does U.S. foreign policy get made? Here, former Under Secretary of State and Ambassador David Newsom offers a long-term insider's view of how our foreign policy is shaped--and sometimes mis-shaped. This book, full of practical insights from a keen observer, is a must for anyone who wants to know how the United States makes its foreign policy.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-279) and index.
About the Author
DAVID D. NEWSOM is former Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State and has served as U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Indonesia, and the Philippines. He is the author of The Soviet Brigade in Cuba and Diplomacy and the American Demodfracy. From 1981 until 1990, he was Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University; Newsom is currently serving as Interim Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown.
Table of Contents
Preface
I. The Legal Basis
II. Government Speaks
III. The Reporting Dimension
IV. Conflicting Objectives
V. Key Issues
VI. Money
VII. Academia
VIII. Think Tanks
IX. Advocacy
X. Lobbies
XI. Congress
The Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Index