After the End

Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World

Autor: Scott, James M.; Crothers, A. Lane; Rosati, Jerel; Twing, Stephen; Jones, Christopher M.
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822321347
eISBN Pdf: 9780822382157
Lloc de publicació: Durham , United States
Any de publicació digital: 1999
Mes: Gener
Pàgines: 448
DDC: 327.73/009/049
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

In the political landscape emerging from the end of the Cold War, making U.S. foreign policy has become more difficult, due in part to less clarity and consensus about threats and interests. In After the End James M. Scott brings together a group of scholars to explore the changing international situation since 1991 and to examine the characteristics and patterns of policy making that are emerging in response to a post–Cold War world.
These essays examine the recent efforts of U.S. policymakers to recast the roles, interests, and purposes of the United States both at home and abroad in a political environment where policy making has become increasingly decentralized and democratized. The contributors suggest that foreign policy leadership has shifted from White House and executive branch dominance to an expanded group of actors that includes the president, Congress, the foreign policy bureaucracy, interest groups, the media, and the public. The volume includes case studies that focus on China, Russia, Bosnia, Somalia, democracy promotion, foreign aid, and NAFTA. Together, these chapters describe how policy making after 1991 compares to that of other periods and suggest how foreign policy will develop in the future.
This collection provides a broad, balanced evaluation of U.S. foreign policy making in the post–Cold War setting for scholars, teachers, and students of U.S. foreign policy, political science, history, and international studies.

Contributors. Ralph G. Carter, Richard Clark, A. Lane Crothers, I. M. Destler, Ole R. Holsti, Steven W. Hook, Christopher M. Jones, James M. McCormick, Jerel Rosati, Jeremy Rosner, John T. Rourke, Renee G. Scherlen, Peter J. Schraeder, James M. Scott, Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Rick Travis, Stephen Twing

Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
1 Out of the Cold: The Post–Cold War Context of U.S. Foreign Policy
I ACTORS AND INFLUENCE
- 2 The Presidency and U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War
- 3 The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy in a New Era
- 4 Foreign Economic Policy Making under Bill Clinton
- 5 Congress and Post–Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy
- 6 Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War
- 7 Interest Groups and the Media in Post–Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy
II CASES
- 8 Making U.S. Foreign Policy toward China in the Clinton Administration
- 9 American Assistance to the Former Soviet States in 1993–1994
- 10 The Promotion of Democracy at the End of the Twentieth Century: A New Polestar for American Foreign Policy?
- 11 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Assertive Multilateralism and Post–Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Making
- 12 The White House, Congress, and the Paralysis of the U.S. State Department after the Cold War
- 13 From Ally to Orphan: Understanding U.S. Policy toward Somalia after the Cold War
- 14 NAFTA and Beyond: The Politics of Trade in the Post–Cold War Period
III AFTER THE END
- 15 Interbranch Policy Making after the End
Notes on Contributors
Index