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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... effective transnational connec- tions among kinfolk - networks of communication which may directly and forcibly tie organized American civic associations to peoples and events in the ancestral homeland . Given the openness of the ...
... effective as influences on Con- gressional decisions in matters of foreign policy than the views of highly competent persons of the Executive Branch who , in contrast to the lobbyists , had exclusively the national interest at heart.2 ...
... effective voice in foreign policy deliberations . Yet as the immigration quotas enforced after 1924 indicate , " white " America itself was divided , for Jews , Slavs , and Southern Europeans were thereafter sharply restricted in coming ...
... effective but also by being the col- lective expression of the will of the people and bearing some relation- ship to their general interests . Yet , in a pluralist polity , it is far from clear that foreign policy is either optimally ...
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