Defining the National Interest Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy

Name: Defining the National Interest Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy
Price: 5.6 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780226813035

ISBN-10: 0226813037

ISBN-13: 9780226813035

Edition: 1998

Authors: Peter Trubowitz

List price: $37.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $37.54

Marketplace

4 new & used from $5.60

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. Why do the nation's leaders find it so difficult to define the national interest?Peter Trubowitz offers a new and compelling conception of American foreign policy and the domestic geopolitical forces that shape and animate it. Foreign policy conflict, he argues, is grounded in America's regional diversity. The uneven nature of America's integration into the world economy has made regionalism a potent force shaping fights over the national interest. As Trubowitz shows, politicians from different parts of the country have consistently sought to equate their region's interests with that of…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/17/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Peter Trubowitz is professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of "Defining the National Interest".



List of Tables


List of Figures


Preface



Regional Conflict and Coalitions in the Making of American Foreign Policy



Sectional Conflict and the Great Debates of the 1890s



North-South Alliance and the Triumph of Internationalism in the 1930s



The Rise of the Sunbelt: America Resurgent in the 1980s



Geopolitics and Foreign Policy


Notes


Bibliography


Index