Anchors against Change
Subtitle: American Opinion Leaders' Beliefs After the Cold War
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: February 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780472107582
Subjects: International relations; U.S. Public Opinion (Political Aspects); International Relations - General; U.S. Foreign Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Politics - Current Events; Government - U.S. Government; History & Theory - General; Political Science / General; Cold War; United States; General; 1945-1989; 1989-; Foreign relations; Public opinion
Description: The end of the Cold War also ended the organizing paradigm of American foreign policy since World War II: the containment of Communism. How the attitudes of opinion leaders toward American involvement abroad were affected by the collapse of the Soviet Union is critical in predicting the shape of future American foreign policy.

Shoon Murray investigates how American leaders' foreign policy opinions changed once they revised their views about the Soviet Union and explores what this tells us about the sources and structure of their belief system. This book should appeal to social scientists interested in studying elite opinion as well as students of the foreign policy process and those interested in the formation of American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.