American Foreign Policy
Subtitle: Theoretical Essays
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Harpercollins College Div
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 682
ISBN-13: 9780673524409
Subjects: International Relations; Political Science; U.S. Foreign Relations; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; U.S. Government
Description: These thought provoking essays, both classic and current, detail the problems encountered in generating a plausible theory of foreign policy and address international determinants of American foreign policy economic necessity as a driving force behind foreign policy, and ideological and cultural accounts of foreign policy.

Also considered are bureaucratic politics and organizational process, the importance of perceptions among foreign policy elite, and normative approaches to the explanation of foreign policy.