American Foreign Policy: Patterns and Process Book

A stellar examination of conceptual, theoretical, and historical components essential to analysis of American foreign policy, this Sixth Edition of American Foreign Policy integrates post-September 11 coverage throughout. As in previous editions of this best-selling book, authors Eugene R. W/ittkopf, Charles W. Kegley,]r., and James M. Scott place contemporary issues, debates, challenges, and opportunities in their historical context-helping readers assess the forces underlying both continuity and change in American foreign policy. The authors explore five foreign policy sources that collectively influence decisions about foreign policy goals and the means to realize them: the external (global) environment, the societal environment of the nation, the governmental setting in which policy making occurs, the roles occupied by policymakers.Read More