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Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy

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ISBN-10: 0815734093

ISBN-13: 9780815734093

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Morton H. Halperin, Priscilla Clapp, Arnold Kanter

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The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. This thoroughly revised version updates that classic analysis of the role played by the federal bureaucracycivilian career officials, political appointees, and military officersand Congress in formulating U.S. national security policy, illustrating how policy decisions are actually made. Government agencies, departments, and individuals all have certain interests to preserve and promote. Those priorities, and the conflicts they sometimes spark, heavily influence the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. A decision that looks like an orchestrated attempt to…    
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Publication date: 10/18/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 6.12" wide x 8.69" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

The ABM puzzle : an introduction to politics inside government
National security interests
Organizational interests
Domestic politics and presidential interests
Interests, faces, and stands
Initiative and rules
Planning a decision strategy
Information and arguments
Maneuvers to affect information
Uses of the press
Involving the president
Influence and decisions
Decisions and implementation
Actions in the field
Presidential control
Congress and bureaucratic politics
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