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List of contents
Chronological List of Documents.
Introduction: The Use of Documents in American Foreign Policy and National Security
I. CONSTITUTING THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.
1. The Earliest Documents.
2. Constructing a Constitutional Republic.
3. A Constitutional Republic Constructed.
4. Justifying the Construction of a Constitutional Republic.
II. CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS ON THE CONDUCT OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY.
5. The Federal Role in Foreign Policy.
6. Separation of Powers and Treaties.
7. Executive-Legislative War Powers.
8. Civil Liberties in Wartime.
III. STATEMENTS ON FOREIGN AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY.
9. Pre-World War II: Foreign Policy and National Security Statements.
10. World War II and Its Settlement: Foreign and National Security Policy Statements.
11. The Onset of the Cold War: Foreign and National Security Policy Statements.
12. The Cold War: Foreign and National Security Policy Statements.
13. After the Cold War: Foreign and National Security Policy Statements.
IV. ARMS CONTROL.
14. Controlling Armaments.
15. Arms Control Through Geographic or Spatial Measures.
16. Arms Control Through Functional Measures.
V. AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
17. State, Defense, Homeland Security, and the National Security Council.
18. International Organizations.
Index.
Summary
For courses in American Foreign Policy, Defense Policy, Foreign Policy Making, and War and Peace Studies.
This annotated and edited anthology brings together the documents most closely related to the making of American foreign and national security policy.
