{"product_id":"isolation-and-engagement-9780472133086","title":"Isolation and Engagement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresidents and their advisors consistently seek to improve the management of foreign policy decision processes. This book analyses administrations from Kennedy to Nixon as they sought to strike a balance between the personal style of the president and the need for a strong interagency structure that could systematically evaluate policy options.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This work is an important scholarly contribution. Newmann carefully reconstructs, with meticulous attention to archival sources, case studies of decision making on China policy across the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies. Yet there is more: he explores how the evolving decision-making structures and processes of each of these presidents, and the presidential actors themselves, affected policy outcomes. His overall analysis of a dynamic, ‘evolutionary-balanced’ model for understanding presidential choice is intriguing and worthy of attention.”\u003cbr\u003e —John P. Burke, John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Vermont “In \u003ci\u003eIsolation and Engagement\u003c\/i\u003e, William Newmann provides us with invaluable insight into the continual adaptation in the processes of presidential decision making, changes that are driven by the interaction of institutional political forces and idiosyncratic aspects of each president.”\u003cbr\u003e —George C. Edwards III, University Distinguished Professor and Jordan Chair Emeritus, Texas AM University, and Distinguished Fellow, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Figures and Tables\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNote on Chinese Transliteration and Sources\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One: Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two: The Evolution-Balance Model\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three: John F. Kennedy: “A Livelier Sense of Duty”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four: Kennedy and China\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five: Lyndon B. Johnson: “Energy in the Executive”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Six: Johnson and China\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Seven: Richard M. Nixon: “If Men Were Angels…”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Eight: Nixon and China\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Nine: Conclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037190848855,"sku":"9780472133086","price":73.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472133086.jpg?v=1750934726","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/isolation-and-engagement-9780472133086","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}