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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... example , how compelling is the claim ethnic groups some- times make , if only by implication , that they should have a dominant voice in deciding how American power should be used with respect to their kinfolk abroad ? Such claims ...
... example , no group of Asian Americans today has an im- portant place at the table in foreign policy discussions as an ethnic con- stituency . But we can debate what their rights and obligations hypo- thetically might be at such a table ...
... Example after example springs to mind where [ ethnic groups ] have proven more powerful and effective as influences on Con- gressional decisions in matters of foreign policy than the views of highly competent persons of the Executive ...
... example , bilingual education in the schools and a rejection of the established intellectual canon ; affirmative action and contract set - asides in the workplace ; electoral redistricting or proportional representation in the political ...
... example , the possible implications of a statement made by a group of Latino organizations looking forward to the Summit of the Americas that was to be held under U.S. auspices in Miami in De- cember 1997 : We are united around the ...
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