American foreign policy: pattern and process

The authors place contemporary issues, debates, challenges, and opportunities in their historical context to help you assess the forces underlying continuity and change in America's activities around the world ... Offering ... discussion of past, present, and future American foreign policy, this book will help you develop an informed understanding of the domestic and global influences that will challenge American foreign policymakers in devising our nation's grand strategy for the twenty-first century.-Back cover.

Originally published: Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, ©2008. 7th ed.

Analytical and thematic perspectives on American foreign policy: In search of American foreign policy, a thematic introduction; Pattern and process in American foreign policy, an analytical perspective -- Patterns of American foreign policy: Principle, power, and pragmatism, the goals of American foreign policy in historical perspective; Instruments of global influence, military might and interventionism; Instruments of global influence, covert activities, foreign aid, sanctions, and public diplomacy -- External sources of American foreign policy: Principle, power, pragmatism in the twenty-first century, the international political system in transition; World political economy in transition, opportunities and constraints in a globalizing world -- Societal sources of American foreign policy: Americans' values, beliefs, and preferences, political culture and public opinion in foreign policy; Transmission of values, beliefs, and preferences, interest groups, mass media, and presidential elections -- Governmental sources of American foreign policy: Presidential preeminence in foreign policy making; Foreign policy bureaucracy and foreign policy making; Congress and foreign policy makin…