American Foreign Policy The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century

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ISBN: 9780393979343

ISBN-10: 0393979342

ISBN-13: 9780393979343

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: Bruce W. Jentleson

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Weaving together theory, history and contemporary debates, this second edition of Jentleson's study includes expanded and updated coverage of post-Cold War geopolitics, globalization, ethnic conflict, democratization and the so-called war on terrorism.

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List price: $59.65
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 693
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English

List of Maps and Boxed Features	p. xiv
Preface	p. xvii
The Context of U.S. Foreign Policy: Theory and History
The Strategic Context: Foreign Policy Strategy and the Essence of Choice	p. 2
Introduction: Foreign Policy in a Time of Transition	p. 2
The Context of the International System	p. 8
Quasi-anarchy	p. 8
System Structure	p. 9
State Structural Position	p. 9
The National Interest: The 4Ps Framework	p. 10
Power	p. 10
Peace	p. 13
Prosperity	p. 14
Principles	p. 16
Dilemmas of Foreign Policy Choice: 4Ps Complementarity and Tradeoffs	p. 19
4Ps Complementarity: Optimal, but Infrequent	p. 19
4Ps Tradeoffs: More Frequent, More Problematic	p. 21
Summary	p. 24
The Domestic Context: Foreign Policy Politics and the Process of Choice	p. 26
Introduction: Dispelling the "Water's Edge" Myth	p. 26
The President, Congress, and "Pennsylvania Avenue Diplomacy"	p. 28
War Powers	p. 30
Treaties and Other International Commitments	p. 31
Appointments of Foreign Policy Officials	p. 32
"Commerce with Foreign Nations"	p. 33
General Powers	p. 33
The Supreme Court as Referee?	p. 35
Executive-Branch Politics	p. 37
Presidents as Foreign Policy Leaders	p. 37
Roles of Senior Foreign Policy Advisers	p. 40
Bureaucratic Politics and Organizational Dynamics	p. 41
Interest Groups and Their Influence	p. 44
A Typology of Foreign Policy Interest Groups	p. 44
Strategies and Techniques of Influence	p. 47
The Extent of Interest-Group Influence: Analytic and Normative Considerations	p. 49
The Impact of the News Media	p. 53
Role of the Media: Cheerleader or Critic?	p. 54
Modes of Influence	p. 54
Freedom of the Press vs. National Security	p. 56
The Nature and Influence of Public Opinion	p. 57
Ignorant or Sensible? The Nature of Public Opinion about Foreign Policy	p. 57
The Influence of Public Opinion on Foreign Policy	p. 60
Summary	p. 62
The Historical Context: Great Debates in American Foreign Policy, 1789-1945	p. 66
Introduction: "The Past Is Prologue"	p. 66
Great Debates over Foreign Policy Strategy	p. 67
Isolationism vs. Internationalism	p. 67
Power, Peace: How Big a Military, How Much for Defense?	p. 72
Principles: True to American Democratic Ideals?	p. 75
Prosperity: U.S. Imperialism?	p. 79
Key Case: U.S. Relations with Latin America--Good Neighbor or Regional Hegemon?	p. 82
Key Case: The United States as a Pacific Power	p. 85
Great Debates in Foreign Policy Politics	p. 88
Going to War	p. 88
National Security vs. the Bill of Rights	p. 91
Free Trade vs. Protectionism	p. 93
Summary	p. 95
The Cold War Context: Origins and First Stages	p. 99
Introduction: "Present at the Creation"	p. 99
Peace: Liberal Internationalism and the United Nations	p. 101
The Original Vision of the United Nations	p. 101
The Scaled-Back Reality	p. 103
Power: Nuclear Deterrence and Containment	p. 104
Formative Period, 1947-50	p. 105
Intensification, 1950s to the Early 1960s	p. 111
Principles: Ideological Bipolarity and the Third World "ABC" Approach	p. 113
Support for "ABC Democrats"	p. 114
CIA Covert Action	p. 116
Prosperity: Creation of the Liberal International Economic Order	p. 117
The Major International Economic Institutions	p. 117
Critiques: Hegemony? Neo-Imperialism?	p. 118
Foreign Policy Politics and the Cold War Consensus	p. 119
Pennsylvania Avenue Diplomacy: A One-Way Street	p. 119
Executive-Branch Politics and the Creation of the "National Security State"	p. 123
Interest Groups, the Media, and Public Opinion: Benefits and Dangers of Consensus	p. 127
Summary	p. 132
The Cold War Context: Lessons and Legacies	p. 136
Introduction: Turbulent Decades	p. 136
The Vietnam War: America's Most Profound Foreign Policy Setback	p. 137
Foreign Policy Strategy: Failure on all Counts	p. 140
Foreign Policy Politics: Shattering the Cold War Consensus	p. 142
The Rise and Fall of Detente: Major Foreign Policy Shifts	p. 147
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Rise of Detente	p. 147
Reasons for the Fall of Detente	p. 154
1970s Economic Shocks	p. 159
The Nixon Shock, 1971	p. 159
The OPEC Shocks, 1973 and 1979	p. 160
The North-South Conflict and Demands for an "NIEO"	p. 161
Trade with Japan	p. 164
Reagan, Gorbachev, and the End of the Cold War	p. 165
The 4Ps under Reagan	p. 165
Confrontational Foreign Policy Politics	p. 170
The End of the Cold War: Why Did the Cold War End, and End Peacefully?	p. 172
Summary	p. 178
American Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Choices and Challenges
Foreign Policy Politics: Diplomacy Begins at Home	p. 186
Introduction: Politics without an Enemy	p. 186
Presidential-Congressional Relations: Post-Cold War Pennsylvania Avenue Diplomacy	p. 188
Interbranch Conflict	p. 188
Institutional Competition	p. 193
Constructive Compromise	p. 195
Cooperation	p. 197
Executive-Branch Politics: Issues of Leadership and Bureaucracy	p. 198
Presidents as Foreign Policy Decision-Makers: George Bush and Bill Clinton	p. 200
The Senior Advisory Process: Greater Consensus, and Its Positives and Negatives	p. 202
Bureaucratic Politics: Assertive New Actors, Troubled Old Ones	p. 206
Foreign Policy Interest Groups: Proliferation and Intensification	p. 209
Economic Globalization and Interest Groups	p. 209
Identity Groups	p. 210
The Explosion of NGOs	p. 212
The Madisonian Dilemma of Interest-Group Influence	p. 213
The News Media: General Trends and the Persian Gulf War Case	p. 214
General Trends	p. 215
The Persian Gulf War Case	p. 218
Post-Cold War Public Opinion: Currents and Cross-Currents	p. 220
Neo-Isolationism vs. Neo-Internationalism	p. 220
Foreign-Domestic "Nexus" Issues	p. 223
Summary	p. 225
Peace: Building a Post-Cold War World Order?	p. 229
Introduction: The Liberal Internationalist Paradigm and the Post-Cold War Era	p. 229
The United Nations	p. 231
Peace and Power: Policy Enhancement vs. Prerogative Encroachment	p. 233
How Effective Is the U.N.?	p. 237
The U.N. and U.S. Domestic Politics	p. 242
Regional Multilateral Organizations	p. 246
Europe: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe	p. 247
The Western Hemisphere: The Organization of American States	p. 248
Africa: The Organization for African Unity	p. 249
Asia: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Its Regional Forum	p. 250
The Middle East: The Multilateral Peace Process	p. 251
Nonproliferation Regimes	p. 252
Nuclear Nonproliferation	p. 252
Chemical and Biological Weapons	p. 254
Lessons of the Iraq Case	p. 256
Land Mines and the Regime-Creating Role of NGOs	p. 258
The United States as a Peace Broker	p. 259
The Middle East Peace Process	p. 260
Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union's Nuclear Weapons, 1991-94	p. 264
Bosnia and the Dayton Accords, 1995	p. 265
Summary	p. 267
Power: Still the Name of the Game?	p. 271
Introduction: The Realist Paradigm and the Post-Cold War Era	p. 271
Major-Power Geopolitics	p. 273
Russia	p. 274
China	p. 278
Western Europe	p. 281
Japan	p. 282
Rethinking Defense Strategy	p. 283
The Persian Gulf War and Its Lessons	p. 284
The Future of NATO	p. 285
Deterrence and the "Two MRC" Strategy	p. 290
Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear "Abolition," Nuclear Defense?	p. 292
Defense Spending: How Much Is Enough?	p. 297
Ethnic and Other Deadly Conflicts	p. 298
Military Intervention	p. 298
The Politics of Military Intervention	p. 302
Preventive Statecraft	p. 306
Security Threats from Nonstate Actors	p. 310
Terrorism	p. 310
Drug Wars	p. 312
Global Crime Rings	p. 314
Summary	p. 315
Prosperity: Foreign Economic and Social Policy in an Age of Globalization	p. 319
Introduction: The International Political Economy Paradigm and the Post-Cold War Era	p. 319
International Trade	p. 321
Making U.S. Trade Policy	p. 323
The Uruguay Round and the WTO System	p. 329
Geo-Economics: Friends as Foes?	p. 331
International Finance	p. 336
1990s Financial Crises	p. 336
Policy Debates over the IMF	p. 340
Social Stewardship	p. 342
Poverty and the Human Condition	p. 342
Global Environmental Issues	p. 350
Economic Sanctions	p. 353
Policy Choice: 4Ps Tensions and Tradeoffs	p. 354
Policy Efficacy: Do Sanctions Work?	p. 356
Summary	p. 358
Principles: The Coming of a Democratic Century?	p. 362
Introduction: The Democratic Idealist Paradigm and the Post-Cold War Era	p. 362
Global Democracy and Human Rights: Status and Prospects	p. 365
1990s Democratic Success Stories	p. 366
Limits and Setbacks	p. 368
Uncertainties: Challenges of Democratic Consolidation and Institutionalization	p. 370
Principles and Peace: The Democratic Peace Debate	p. 376
The Democratic Peace Theory	p. 377
Critiques and Caveats	p. 379
Policy Strategies for Promoting Democracy and Protecting Human Rights	p. 381
U.S. Government	p. 381
International Organizations	p. 383
Other Governments	p. 385
NGOs	p. 385
Facilitating Free and Fair Elections	p. 386
Building Strong and Accountable Political Institutions	p. 388
Strengthening the Rule of Law	p. 390
Protecting Human Rights	p. 393
Cultivating Civil Society	p. 397
Principles and Power: Significance and Sources of Soft Power	p. 400
Principles as Power: Soft Power's Significance	p. 400
Domestic Policy as Foreign Policy: Sources of Soft Power	p. 401
Summary	p. 402
Index	p. 1
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