Beyond the Waters Edge - How Partisanship Corrupts U.s. Foreign Policy

Paul R. Pillar examines how and why partisanship has undermined U.S. foreign policy, especially over the past three decades.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: Parties, Policies, and Pathologies
1. From Bitter Division to Good Feelings
2. Growing into a World Power
3. The Acme of Bipartisanship
4. Sliding Back into Corruption
5. Politics as War
6. A Demagogue Takes Over a Party
7. Identifying with Foreign Interests
8. Partisanship Entrenched
9. Consequences and Prospects
Notes
Index

About the author

Paul R. Pillar is a nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University and a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He served in several senior positions in the U.S. intelligence community and is a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. His previous Columbia University Press books are Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform (2011) and Why America Misunderstands the World: National Experience and Roots of Misperception (2016).

Summary

Paul R. Pillar examines how and why partisanship has undermined U.S. foreign policy, especially over the past three decades.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Pillar, Pillar Paul
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2023
• EAN: 9780231213165
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21316-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Politics & government, Political parties and party platforms, politcal science