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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... action groups may subject Washington to demands particularly dif- ficult to reconcile with one another . A study of ethnic group activism alone is not enough to provide a final answer to the question of how policymaking in a democracy ...
... actions in the field of foreign affairs are the convulsive reac- tions of politicians to an internal political life dominated by vocal minorities ... No one who thinks back over the annals of just these postwar decades will have ...
... action , tax codes , or education policy , we need some concept of what benefits all of us and not simply segments of the population . To allow taxation or education policy to be decided by whoever has the most clout is to sur- render ...
... actions consciously designed to promote the interests of the United States as a collective entity in relation to similar collective entities , is slowly but steadily disappearing.5 WHILE THE TWO major themes of this book - practical ...
... action and contract set - asides in the workplace ; electoral redistricting or proportional representation in the political arena . What multiculturalism means with respect to the formulation of American foreign policy remains fluid ...
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