Why American foreign policy fails
Subtitle: unsafe at home and despised abroad
By: by Dennis Jett.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Political leadership; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-
Description: "The United States confronts today's world with a foreign policy that is neither consistent enough to be called a policy nor adequately responsive to foreign threats and opportunities. It is instead constructed in the marketplace of interests, and not ideas, that Washington has become. As a result, it is more likely to serve special interests rather than the national interest. This has come about because the end of the Cold War, globalization, and political partisanship have created a dysfunctional policy process. This book explores this change in U.S. foreign policy, examines the roles of the primary actors, ands assesses the potential for improvement."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's changed and why it's failing; title: Why it isn't more apparent; title: How it really works; title: A few case studies; title: Why it won't change and how it might.