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This newest edition of U.S. Foreign Policy explores three related themes: the essential difference between domestic and foreign policies; the existence of political situations that are both international and domestic, or intermestic; and the hyper-partisanship and political polarization that dominates contemporary American politics.
List of contents
I. The Context
1: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Water's Edge
2: Brother, Can You Paradigm? 1945 to the Present
II. Foreign Policy Processes
3: Understanding How It Happens: Decision Making and U.S. Foreign Policy
4: The President
5: The Role of Executive Agencies
6: Congress and Foreign Policy
7: Interest Groups and Think Tanks
8: The Public and the Media
III. Policy Arenas
9: National Security Policy and Problems
10: Foreign Economic Policy
11: Trans-State Issues and American Foreign Policy
IV. The Future
12: Conclusions: Back to the Water's Edge
About the author
Donald M Snow is professor emeritus at the University of Alabama where he taught courses on International Relations, American Defense Policy, and Foreign Policy. He is author of numerous books on national security and American foreign policy, including The Middle East, Oil, and the U.S. National Security Policy: Intractable Conflicts, Impossible Solutions, due to publish April 2016 with R&L.
Patrick J. Haney is professor and Chair of the Political Science department at Miami University in Ohio. He serves on the Editorial Board of Foreign Policy Analysis, is Past President of the Active Learning in International Affairs section of the International Studies Association (ISA), and currently an officer for the Foreign Policy Analysis section of the ISA.
Summary
This newest edition of U.S. Foreign Policy explores three related themes: the essential difference between domestic and foreign policies; the existence of political situations that are both international and domestic, or intermestic; and the hyper-partisanship and political polarization that dominates contemporary American politics.
