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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... 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 may be made more effective , but it can ...
... demand the cultiva- tion of almost all those which it lacks ... It has little capacity for combining measures in secret and waiting patiently for the result . In politics , the tendency of a democracy [ is ] to obey its feelings rather ...
... demands of a subgroup in a democratic fashion , avoiding the tyranny of the majority ? Note that this way of formulating the issue sets the general against a particular in- terest ; it does not seek to legitimize the rule of the ...
... demands formulated by foreign leaders or with dilemmas re- mote from American values or interests . As Samuel Huntington has observed : Previous assumptions that the foreign and domestic policymaking processes differ from each other for ...
... demands of multiculturalists should be accepted , I would ar- gue , as an extension of the promise of democracy in America . But the third claim seems to me to be unacceptable . American power in world affairs is not something to be ...
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