A fascinating history of how policy-makers have created US foreign policy since the days of the early Republic, filled with portraits of the personalities who have held high decision-making posts, and with accounts of battles pitting agencies, individuals, and ideologies against one another. The author traces the development of the State Department, the National Security Council, and the White House staff, and shows how each president has organised the foreign policy system in his own way, and how powerful figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Kissinger have moulded policy for particular periods of history. Included are detailed analyses of US foreign policy during the Carter and Reagan administrations and indications of where our current structure and policy is leading. Students of American history and politics, and of international relations.
- ISBN10 019505010X
- ISBN13 9780195050103
- Publish Date 16 April 1987 (first published 23 May 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English