This comprehensive text focuses on the policy, process, historical and problem-oriented aspects of American foreign policy. Its conceptual framework advances four cardinal principles as analytical tools to help guide and examine policy choice. In their assessment of actual policy decisions, the authors explore alternatives that were (or might have been) considered, and review the results of those decisions. This book also attempts to look forward. It emphasizes the importance of initial policy choices in giving a sense of direction and commitment. It stresses perspective and careful analysis before policy decision, instead of using the kind of shorthand guidelines that have been determining American policy. Finally, the text examines how much of the United States's foreign policy is conditioned by the very nature of international relations.
- ISBN10 0673468747
- ISBN13 9780673468741
- Publish Date January 1994 (first published 1 January 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Longman
- Format Paperback
- Pages 500
- Language English