Preface. Part I: INTRODUCTION. 1. The Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy. Part II: HISTORICAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT. 2. History of United States Foreign Relations. 3. The Global Context and American Power. Part III: GOVERNMENT AND THE POLICYMAKING PROCESS. 4. Presidential Power and Leadership. 5. The Bureaucracy, Presidential Management and the NSC. 6. Understanding Bureaucracy: The State Department at Home and Abroad. 7. The Military Establishment. 8. The Intelligence Community. 9. The Foreign Economic Bureaucracy and the NEC. 10. Executive Branch Policymaking and Decision?Making Theory. 11. Congress and Interbranch Politics. 12. The Judiciary, State Governments, and the Washington Political Community. Part IV: THE SOCIETY AND DOMESTIC POLITICS. 13. The Public and Their Beliefs. 14. National Security. Part V: CIVIL LIBERTIES AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION. 15. Electoral Politics. 16. Group Politics. 17. The Media and the Communications Process. Part VI: CONCLUSION. 18. Summarizing the Major Patterns, the Nature of Change, and the Future Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy. Appendix A: The U.S. Constitution. Appendix B: Internet and Library Searches for Information. Index.