Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign PolicyHarvard University Press, 2000 - 190 pagini Who speaks for America in world affairs? In this insightful new book, Tony Smith finds that, often, the answer is interest groups, including ethnic ones. This seems natural in a country defined by ethnic and cultural diversity and a democratic political system. And yet, should not the nation's foreign policy be based on more general interests? On American national interests? |
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... abroad is relatively weak . Second , at present , the negative consequences of ethnic involvement may well outweigh the undoubted benefits this activism at times con- fers on America in world affairs . To make such an evaluation is only ...
... abroad , giving the impression that they believe national policy toward the Balkans and Turkey should be decided by Greek and Orthodox Americans , toward Africa and the Caribbean by African Americans , toward the Middle East by Muslim ...
... abroad should determine American policies , implicitly this belief is frequently basic to their agenda . Consider , for example , the possible implications of a statement made by a group of Latino organizations looking forward to the ...
... abroad . Pluralists do not doubt the cogent historical and moral grounds on which ethnoracial communities join together politi- cally , but we do believe that in debates about the formulation of Ameri- can foreign policy , national ...
... abroad . Rather , my point is to remind them that on occasion America may have values and inter- ests not only different from but actually opposed to the expressed val- ues and interests of their ancestral homelands . To say this is to ...
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