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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... ( issues of practical importance ) , com- plex and important questions concerning the character of this country's pluralist democracy and the rights and obligations of citizenship ( issues of political ethics ) can be raised . While the ...
... issue sets the general against a particular in- terest ; it does not seek to legitimize the rule of the majority over a mi- nority . In the most influential answer to the problem of pluralism , James Madison , in Federalist 10 ...
... issue of July 31 , 1998 , to cite but one instance , the Armenian International Magazine printed a long article dedicated to rallying the Armenian diaspora to the defense of the homeland . As one contributor declared in terms implicitly ...
... issue for genera- tions , they asked ? Are we any closer to agreement today on these com- plex and vexing questions than we were in the 1960s when Presidents Kennedy and Johnson launched a renewed national debate ? The focus of ...
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