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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... social 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 ...
... social interest lobbying in foreign affairs , it would be surprising if ethnic activists were unable to affect foreign policy debates in Washington . The question of influence raises the question of effectiveness : How efficient is ...
... social difference . The miracle of de- mocracy is that it can find strength in its diversity and even to a limited degree in social divisiveness . The reality of democracy - one we would be mistaken to forget , flushed with victory over ...
... social 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 ...
... social interests fight it out in the public arena with the strongest determining policy . In foreign affairs this Madisonian argument is especially problem- atic . Here faction may not be so automatically counterbalanced by fac- tion as ...
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