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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... kinfolk abroad ? Such claims become particularly problematic in cases where these groups - under the ideological mantle of " multicul- turalism " -seem to place a higher priority on their sense of ethnic identity than on their sense of ...
... 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 American political process to a wide variety of ...
... kinfolk in ways that have no domestic parallel domestically . In short , the difficulty of debating what the com- mon good actually is does not mean that the concept itself — America as a community , an unum as well as a pluribus - can ...
... kinfolk abroad should determine American policies , implicitly this belief is frequently basic to their agenda . Consider , for example , the possible implications of a statement made by a group of Latino organizations looking forward ...
... with oil companies ) on the other , each with a self - interest in mind that aligns these Americans with ancestral kinfolk while paying no apparent heed to American national interests ? Perhaps in a situation Introduction 15.
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