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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... especially so at times like the present , when no vital threat to the country's security is apparent and a bipartisan consensus on America's proper role abroad is relatively weak . Second , at present , the negative consequences of ...
... questions surrounding arguments specifying the rights and obligations of citizen- ship in a pluralist democracy . Given the significance of interest group lobbying on all sides - from business associations especially , Introduction 3.
... especially , but also from ethnic and religious communities - questions naturally arise about the justification of a minority's efforts to control policies con- cerning the American polity in general . Existing theories of democratic ...
... 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.
... especially applaud Turkey for : its democratic and secular values ; its close and mutually beneficial ties with the United States ; its invaluable strategic role as a NATO partner ; its ever deepening relations with the State of Israel ...
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