عنوان

American foreign policy and political ambition /

(Number (ISBN

1608716805

(Number (ISBN

9781608716807

Title Proper

American foreign policy and political ambition /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

James Lee Ray.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Washington :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

SAGE Publications,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (497 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

PART I Laying the Foundation: The Importance, the History, and Competing Theories of American Foreign Policy -- 1 The Impacts of American Foreign Policy -- 2 Analyzing Modern American Foreign Policy: Competing Approaches -- 3 The Past as Prologue: American Foreign Policy from the American Revolution through World War II -- 4 The Cold War -- PART II Foreign Policy Processes-Inside and Outside the Government -- 5 The President and Congress -- 6 Government Agencies, Economic Issues, and Foreign Policy -- 7 The Impact of Extragovernmental Factors on American Foreign Policy: Political Parties, Interest Groups, the Mass Media, and Public Opinion -- PART III U.S. Foreign Policy in Regional Contexts -- 8 The United States and Europe: A Parting of the Ways? -- 9 Inter-American Relations -- 10 The United States and Sub-Saharan Africa -- 11 The United States in Asia: The Coming Clash with China? -- 12 The United States, Israel, and Its Neighbors -- 13 The U.S. Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Their Origins (and Legality) -- 14 The Evolution and Conclusion of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- PART IV The Future: Threats and Possibilities -- 15 U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century.

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Text of Note

"In his eagerly-awaited second edition of American Foreign Policy and Political Ambition, James Ray revisits his deceptively simple premise that the highest priority of leaders is to stay in power. Looking at how political ambition and domestic pressures impact foreign policymaking is the key to understanding how and why foreign policy decisions are made. The text begins by using this analytic approach to look at the history of foreign policymaking and then examines how various parties inside and outside government influence decision making. In a unique third section, the book takes a regional approach, not only covering trends other books tend to miss, but giving students the opportunity to think comprehensively about how issues intersect around the globe-from human security and democratization, to globalization and pollution. Guided by input from adopters and reviewers, Ray has thoroughly re-organized the book and streamlined some coverage to better consolidate the historical, institutional, regional, and topical chapters and focus the thematic lens of the book. Ray has also brought the book fully up-to-date, addressing the latest events in American foreign policy, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the killing of Bin Laden, the WikiLeaks scandal and its aftermath, the impact of social media on foreign policy and world affairs, nuclear proliferation, developments in U.S.-Russian relations, climate change, and more."--Publisher's website.

Title

American Foreign Policy and Political Ambition.

International Standard Book Number

9781608716807

Ambition-- History.

Ambition.

Diplomatic relations-- Philosophy.

Diplomatic relations.

United States, Foreign relations, Philosophy.

United States, Foreign relations, Sources.

United States, Foreign relations.

United States.

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Book number

Ray, James Lee

Date of Transaction

20200823045644.0

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