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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... determining how America acts on the world stage , on closer inspection the roles of the Congress and of popular forces need always to be respected . Indeed , as we investigate the ques- tion " Who speaks for America ? " it turns out ...
... determining policy . In foreign affairs this Madisonian argument is especially problem- atic . Here faction may not be so automatically counterbalanced by fac- tion as in domestic life , and here too foreign Introduction 7.
... determine policy based on some idea of the common good . Although ethnic activists seldom ex- plicitly claim that the self - defined needs of their kinfolk abroad should determine American policies , implicitly this belief is frequently ...
... determined : by Greek , Armenian , Kurdish , and Arab Ameri- cans on the one side opposing Jewish and Turkish Americans ( along with oil companies ) on the other , each with a self - interest in mind that aligns these Americans with ...
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