American foreign policy : past, present, future / Glenn P. Hastedt.

By:

Hastedt, Glenn P, 1950- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Person/Prentice Hall, [2006]Edition: 6th edtionDescription: xvi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0131930699 (pbk.)
9780131930698

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DDC classification:

327.73009 22 H.G.A

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Table of contents

Contents:

1. The global setting of American foreign policy --Why the international system matters --Globalization --American hegemony -- What the world wants from the United States -- The international system : structural constants -- Decentralization --Self-help system -- A stratified system -- The international system : postwar trends -- Diffusion of power -- Issue proliferation --Actor proliferation -- Regional diversity -- The international system : emerging characteristics of the post-Cold War world -- Plan of the text -- 2. The emerging foreign policy agenda -- Foreign policy problems --Thinking about foreign policy problems -- The national interest -- The evolving foreign policy agenda -- Terrorism -- Combating terrorism -- Summary and the future -- 3. The American national style -- Isolationism versus internationalism -- Sources of the American national style -- Patterns -- Unilateralism -- Moral pragmatism -- Legalism -- Consequences of the American national style -- A revival of Wilsonianism? -- Other voices from the past -- Summary and the future -- 4. The search for grand strategy : post-Vietnam U.S. foreign policy -- The logic and purpose of grand strategy -- The Nixon (and Ford) administrations : leaving Vietnam and entering Détente -- Nixon's foreign policy evaluated -- The Carter administration : American foreign policy with a purpose : promoting human rights -- Carter's foreign policy evaluated -- The Reagan administration : a renewed Cold War -- Reagan's foreign policy evaluated -- The George H.W. Bush administration : leaving the Cold War and entering a new world -- George H.W. Bush's foreign policy evaluated -- The Clinton administration : the first post-Cold War presidency -- The Clinton foreign policy evaluated -- The George W. Bush administration : into the war on terrorism -- George W. Bush's foreign policy evaluated -- Summary and the future. 5. Learning from the past -- How do policy makers learn from the past? -- Events policy makers learn from -- Types of calculations made about those events -- Lessons learned -- Learning from the past : case studies -- The Cold War -- Vietnam -- The Persian Gulf War -- Summary -- The occupation and reconstruction of Iraq -- 6. The domestic context of American foreign policy -- The media and American foreign policy -- The media, public opinion, and war -- Public opinion -- Trends and content -- Public opinion and the use of force -- Impact -- Elections -- Voter knowledge and issue voting -- Party and candidate differences -- Impact -- Interest groups -- Types of groups -- Impact -- Political protest -- Policy-maker response -- An example : the public use of intelligence and the Iraq War -- Summary and future issues -- 7. The constitution and foreign affairs -- Treaty-making powers -- Senatorial advice and consent -- Executive agreements -- The role of the house and the Panama Canal treaties -- Appointment powers -- War powers -- War powers resolution -- Civil liberties -- Commerce powers -- Federalism and the states -- Summary and the future issues -- 8. The Presidency -- Presidential personality -- When does the individual matter? -- Presidential bureaucracy -- The National Security Council -- Other voices -- The Vice President -- The White House Chief of Staff -- Presidential decision making -- Presidential transitions -- Summary and the future issues -- 9. Congress and foreign policy -- Congressional structure and foreign policy -- Blunt foreign policy tools -- Decentralization -- Policy entrepreneurship -- Staff aides -- The influence of party and region -- Foreign policy impact -- Congress and the president : the changing relationship -- Summary and future issues. 10. The foreign affairs bureaucracy -- The State Department -- Structure and growth -- The State Department's value system -- Foreign policy impact -- The Defense Department -- Structure and growth -- The Defense department's value system -- Foreign policy impact -- The CIA and the intelligence community -- Structure and growth -- The intelligence community's value system -- Foreign policy impact -- The domestic bureaucracies -- Treasury, commerce, and agriculture -- Homeland Security -- Summary and future issues -- 11. Models of policy making : overview -- The rational actor model -- Bureaucratic politics model -- Small-group decision making -- Elite theory and pluralism -- Summary : integrating models and additional possibilities -- 12. Decision making : case studies -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The crisis : an overview -- Three views of the Cuban missile crisis -- Pre 9/11 intelligence policy on terrorism -- The intelligence cycle -- Intelligence on terrorism prior to 9/11 -- Three views of an intelligence failure -- Negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) -- The bargaining phase -- The ratification phase -- Summary -- 13. Diplomacy -- Selecting a policy instrument -- Human rights -- Bilateral diplomacy -- Incentives versus sanctions -- Summit diplomacy -- East-West superpower summits -- Western economic summits -- Conference diplomacy -- GATT and WTO -- Environmental conferences -- UN diplomacy -- Public diplomacy -- The political use of force -- Post-Cold War coercive diplomacy -- Nuclear diplomacy -- Arms transfers -- Summary and the future -- 14. Covert action -- Techniques of covert action -- Post-Cold War covert action -- The covert war against Osama bin Laden -- Congress and the CIA -- Era of trust -- Era of skepticism -- Era of uneasy partnership -- Congress as impatient overseer -- Summary and the future. 15. The economic instruments -- Strategic outlooks -- Trade strategies -- Monetary strategies -- Economic sanctions -- Inventory of options -- Case studies -- Rules of economic conflict -- Smart sanctions -- Foreign aid -- Types of foreign aid -- Cold War foreign aid -- Post-Cold War foreign aid -- Post-9/11 foreign aid -- Summary and the future -- 16. Military power -- Development of U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals -- What does it all mean? -- A historical survey of U.S. nuclear strategy -- Post-Cold War nuclear strategy -- The U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal -- U.S. nuclear strategy -- Bridging the nuclear-conventional divide -- Deterrence -- Preemption -- Asymmetric conflicts -- Strategies for the use of conventional military force -- War fighting -- Humanitarian/peacekeeping operations -- Terrorism/counterinsurgency conflicts -- Summary and the future -- 17. Arms control and missile defense -- Judging success and failure -- Superpower arms control -- 1946 to 1957 -- 1958 to 1972 -- 1973 to 1988 -- 1989 to 2001 -- 2001 to present -- Defense -- The Strategic Defense Initiative -- Missile defense systems -- Counterproliferation -- The post-Cold War agenda -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Conventional weapons -- Combining approaches -- Summary and the future -- 18. Alternative futures -- Choices -- Alternative futures -- The United States as an ordinary state -- Reformed America -- The United States as a global manager -- Pragmatic America -- Neocontainment -- Triumphant America -- American crusader -- America the balancer -- Disengaged America -- The future.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library A4	Faculty of Economics & Political (Political)	327.73009 H.G.A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00003430

Includes bibliographical references.

1. The global setting of American foreign policy --Why the international system matters --Globalization --American hegemony -- What the world wants from the United States -- The international system : structural constants -- Decentralization --Self-help system -- A stratified system --
The international system : postwar trends -- Diffusion of power --
Issue proliferation --Actor proliferation -- Regional diversity -- The international system : emerging characteristics of the post-Cold War world -- Plan of the text --
2. The emerging foreign policy agenda -- Foreign policy problems --Thinking about foreign policy problems -- The national interest -- The evolving foreign policy agenda -- Terrorism -- Combating terrorism -- Summary and the future --
3. The American national style -- Isolationism versus internationalism -- Sources of the American national style --
Patterns -- Unilateralism -- Moral pragmatism -- Legalism --
Consequences of the American national style -- A revival of Wilsonianism? -- Other voices from the past -- Summary and the future -- 4. The search for grand strategy : post-Vietnam U.S. foreign policy -- The logic and purpose of grand strategy --
The Nixon (and Ford) administrations : leaving Vietnam and entering Détente -- Nixon's foreign policy evaluated -- The Carter administration : American foreign policy with a purpose : promoting human rights -- Carter's foreign policy evaluated --
The Reagan administration : a renewed Cold War -- Reagan's foreign policy evaluated -- The George H.W. Bush administration : leaving the Cold War and entering a new world -- George H.W. Bush's foreign policy evaluated -- The Clinton administration : the first post-Cold War presidency -- The Clinton foreign policy evaluated -- The George W. Bush administration : into the war on terrorism -- George W. Bush's foreign policy evaluated -- Summary and the future. 5. Learning from the past -- How do policy makers learn from the past? --
Events policy makers learn from -- Types of calculations made about those events -- Lessons learned -- Learning from the past : case studies -- The Cold War -- Vietnam -- The Persian Gulf War -- Summary -- The occupation and reconstruction of Iraq --
6. The domestic context of American foreign policy -- The media and American foreign policy -- The media, public opinion, and war -- Public opinion -- Trends and content --
Public opinion and the use of force -- Impact -- Elections -- Voter knowledge and issue voting -- Party and candidate differences -- Impact -- Interest groups -- Types of groups -- Impact -- Political protest -- Policy-maker response -- An example : the public use of intelligence and the Iraq War -- Summary and future issues -- 7. The constitution and foreign affairs -- Treaty-making powers -- Senatorial advice and consent -- Executive agreements -- The role of the house and the Panama Canal treaties -- Appointment powers -- War powers --
War powers resolution -- Civil liberties -- Commerce powers -- Federalism and the states -- Summary and the future issues --
8. The Presidency -- Presidential personality -- When does the individual matter? -- Presidential bureaucracy -- The National Security Council -- Other voices -- The Vice President --
The White House Chief of Staff -- Presidential decision making -- Presidential transitions -- Summary and the future issues --
9. Congress and foreign policy -- Congressional structure and foreign policy -- Blunt foreign policy tools -- Decentralization --
Policy entrepreneurship -- Staff aides -- The influence of party and region -- Foreign policy impact -- Congress and the president : the changing relationship -- Summary and future issues. 10. The foreign affairs bureaucracy -- The State Department -- Structure and growth -- The State Department's value system -- Foreign policy impact -- The Defense Department -- Structure and growth -- The Defense department's value system -- Foreign policy impact --
The CIA and the intelligence community -- Structure and growth -- The intelligence community's value system -- Foreign policy impact -- The domestic bureaucracies -- Treasury, commerce, and agriculture -- Homeland Security -- Summary and future issues -- 11. Models of policy making : overview -- The rational actor model -- Bureaucratic politics model -- Small-group decision making -- Elite theory and pluralism --
Summary : integrating models and additional possibilities --
12. Decision making : case studies -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The crisis : an overview -- Three views of the Cuban missile crisis -- Pre 9/11 intelligence policy on terrorism --
The intelligence cycle -- Intelligence on terrorism prior to 9/11 --
Three views of an intelligence failure -- Negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) -- The bargaining phase -- The ratification phase -- Summary -- 13. Diplomacy --
Selecting a policy instrument -- Human rights -- Bilateral diplomacy -- Incentives versus sanctions -- Summit diplomacy -- East-West superpower summits -- Western economic summits -- Conference diplomacy -- GATT and WTO --
Environmental conferences -- UN diplomacy -- Public diplomacy -- The political use of force -- Post-Cold War coercive diplomacy -- Nuclear diplomacy -- Arms transfers -- Summary and the future -- 14. Covert action -- Techniques of covert action --
Post-Cold War covert action -- The covert war against Osama bin Laden -- Congress and the CIA -- Era of trust -- Era of skepticism -- Era of uneasy partnership -- Congress as impatient overseer -- Summary and the future. 15. The economic instruments -- Strategic outlooks -- Trade strategies --
Monetary strategies -- Economic sanctions -- Inventory of options -- Case studies -- Rules of economic conflict -- Smart sanctions -- Foreign aid -- Types of foreign aid -- Cold War foreign aid -- Post-Cold War foreign aid -- Post-9/11 foreign aid --
Summary and the future -- 16. Military power -- Development of U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals -- What does it all mean? --
A historical survey of U.S. nuclear strategy -- Post-Cold War nuclear strategy -- The U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal --
U.S. nuclear strategy -- Bridging the nuclear-conventional divide -- Deterrence -- Preemption -- Asymmetric conflicts -- Strategies for the use of conventional military force --
War fighting -- Humanitarian/peacekeeping operations --
Terrorism/counterinsurgency conflicts -- Summary and the future -- 17. Arms control and missile defense -- Judging success and failure -- Superpower arms control -- 1946 to 1957 -- 1958 to 1972 -- 1973 to 1988 -- 1989 to 2001 -- 2001 to present -- Defense -- The Strategic Defense Initiative --
Missile defense systems -- Counterproliferation -- The post-Cold War agenda -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Conventional weapons -- Combining approaches -- Summary and the future --
18. Alternative futures -- Choices -- Alternative futures -- The United States as an ordinary state -- Reformed America --
The United States as a global manager -- Pragmatic America --
Neocontainment -- Triumphant America -- American crusader -- America the balancer -- Disengaged America -- The future.

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