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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... Democracy in the Twentieth Century Thinking like a Communist : State and Legitimacy in the Soviet Union , China , and Cuba The Pattern of Imperialism : The United States , Great Britain , and the Late - Industrializing World since 1815 ...
... oversight reflects our poor general understanding of the domestic sources of America's role in world affairs . Yet the success of ethnic activism should not be 1 too surprising . America is a pluralist democracy in which II.
... democracy in which social forces have rather easy access to governmental policy deliberations , hence the country's ... democracy , its workings can come at a cost . Third , the contradictions of pluralist democracy are particularly ap ...
... democracy may be made more effective , but it can at least be indicative of a response . My second ambition here is to analyze the logic of ethical questions surrounding arguments specifying the rights and obligations of citizen- ship ...
... democracy - one we would be mistaken to forget , flushed with victory over fascism and commu- nism at the beginning of a new century - is that its enormous undertak- ing may eventually fail not so much because of external challenge as ...
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