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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... forces have rather easy access to governmental policy deliberations , hence the country's role in world affairs is bound to express to a substantial de- gree the opinion of its organized civic actors . This is especially so at times ...
... forces at play in the practical world of democratic politics as they affect foreign policy ; the other , more theoretical , analyzes the logic of moral arguments con- cerning the nature of democratic citizenship . My goal of ...
... forces need always to be respected . Indeed , as we investigate the ques- tion " Who speaks for America ? " it turns out that interest groups ( in- cluding far more than those ethnically based ) frequently write the script , whence the ...
... forces , that in a pluralistic democracy there will always be tensions among individual and group values and interests and among rival con- ceptions of the common good.3 One of the major balancing acts of modern democratic theory ...
... forces are disproportionately affecting African Ameri- can and Hispanic American communities , which therefore need to be concerned on an ethnic ( not only a class ) basis about the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement ...
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