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American Foreign Policy

by: Ikenberry, G. John

American Foreign Policy

by: Ikenberry, G. John

ISBN 13:
9780321005076
ISBN 10:
0321005074
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/01/1999
Publisher: Longman Pub Group
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Summary

This thought -- provoking reader draws to 28 representative essays from major schools of thought on the forces that shape American foreign policy, providing a basis for both the explanation and evaluation of that policy. It includes four new essays tied to critical topics such as emerging democracies, executive-congressional relations civil military relations, and foreign policy decisions being driven by business interests.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

(12)

PART ONE THE PROBLEM OF EXPLANATION

(52)

JAMES R. KURTH

A Widening Gyre: The Logic of American Weapons Procurement

(23)

OLE R. HOLSTI

Models of International Relations and Foreign Policy

(28)

PART TWO INTERNATIONAL SOURCES OF FOREIGN POLICY

(74)

KENNETH WALTZ

Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power

(23)

MICHAEL MASTANDUNO

DAVID A. LAKE

G. JOHN IKENBERRY

Toward a Realist Theory of State Action

(21)

MELVYN P. LEFFLER

The American Conception of National Security and the Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945-1948

111

(28)

PART THREE CAPITALISM, CLASS, AND FOREIGN POLICY

139

(80)

JAMES R. KURTH

The Political Consequences of the Product Cycle: Industrial History and Political Outcomes

141

(30)

JEFF FRIEDEN

Sectoral Conflict and U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 1914-1940

171

(29)

FRED BLOCK

Economic Instability and Military Strength: The Paradoxes of the 1950 Rearmament Decision

200

(19)

PART FOUR NATIONAL VALUES, DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, AND FOREIGN POLICY

219

(94)

SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

American Ideals versus American Institutions

221

(33)

STEPHEN D. KRASNER

Policy Making in a Weak State

254

(25)

MICHAEL MASTANDUNO

The United States Political System and International Leadership: A "Decidedly Inferior" Form of Government?

279

(20)

STROBE TOLBOTT

Democracy and the National Interest

299

(14)

PART FIVE PUBLIC OPINION, POLICY LEGITIMACY, AND SECTIONAL CONFLICT

313

(98)

MICHAEL ROSKIN

From Pearl Harbor to Vietnam: Shifting Generational Paradigms and Foreign Policy

315

(21)

ALEXANDER L. GEORGE

Domestic Constraints on Regime Change in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Need for Policy Legitimacy

336

(25)

OLE R. HOLSTI

Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: Challenges to the Almond-Lippmann Consensus

361

(32)

PETER TRUBOWITZ

Political Conflict and Foreign Policy in the United States: A Geographical Interpretation

393

(18)

PART SIX BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

411

(70)

GRAHAM T. ALLISON

Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis

413

(45)

STEPHEN D. KRASNER

Are Bureaucracies Important? (Or Allison Wonderland)

458

(13)

JAMES C. THOMSON, JR.

How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy

471

(10)

PART SEVEN PERCEPTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

481

(80)

ROBERT JERVIS

Hypotheses on Misperception

483

(21)

PHILIP E. TETLOCK

CHARLES B. MCGUIRE, JR.

Cognitive Perspectives on Foreign Policy

504

(19)

YUEN FOONG KHONG

Seduction by Analogy in Vietnam: The Malaya and Korea Analogies

523

(10)

IRVING L. JANIS

Escalation of the Vietnam War: How Could It Happen

533

(28)

PART EIGHT AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE COLD WAR

561

CHRISTOPHER LAYNE

From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's Future Grand Strategy

563

(33)

JOSEF JOFFE

"Bismarck" or "Britain"? Toward an American Grand Strategy after Bipolarity

596

(19)

G. JOHN IKENBERRY

The Myth of Post-Cold War Chaos

615

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