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Book SynopsisConsiders setting and place as irreducible features of the human condition and sociocultural existence. Focusing on a range of periods in places from France to the Balkans and from Siberia to San Diego, this work concentrates on such subjects as the Lockean landscapes, 19th-century Australian and North American landscape paintings, and zoos.
Trade Review“Highly recommended for scholars, specialists, and advanced students—an informed synthesis of recent theory and research on the formulation of American foreign policy.”—Charles W. Kegley, Pearce Professor of International Relations at the University of South Carolina
Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ix
Preface xi
1. Out of the Cold: The Post-Cold War Context of U.S. Foreign Policy / James M. Scott and A. Lane Crothers 1
I. Actors and Influence
2. The Presidency and U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War / Jerel Rosati and Stephen Twing 29
3. The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy in a New Era / Christopher M. Jones 57
4. Foreign Economic Policy Making Under Bill Clinton / I. M. Destler 89
5. Congress and Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy / Ralph G. Carter 108
6. Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War / Ole Holsti 138
7. Interest Groups and the Media in Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy / James M. McCormick 170
II. Cases
8. Making U.S. Foreign Policy toward China in the Clinton Administration / John T. Rourke and Richard Clark 201
9. American Assistance to the Former Soviet States in 1993–1994 / Jeremy D. Rosner 225
10. The Promotion of Democracy at the End of the Twentieth Century: A New Polestar for American Foreign Policy? / Rick Travis 251
11. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Assertive Multilateralism and Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Making / Jennifer Sterling-Folker 277
12. The White House, Congress, and the Paralysis of the U.S. State Department after the Cold War / Steven W. Hook 305
13. From Ally to Orphan: Understanding U.S. Policy toward Somalia after the Cold War / Peter J. Schraeder 330
14. NAFTA and Beyond: The Politics of Trade in the Post-Cold War Period / Renee G. Scherlen 358
III. After the End
15. Interbranch Policy Making after the End / James M. Scott 389
Notes on Contributors 409
Index 411
