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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... 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 notion of " one nation divisible . " Since the Federalist Papers more than ...
... tion of almost all those which it lacks ... It has little capacity for combining measures in secret and waiting patiently for the result . In politics , the tendency of a democracy [ is ] to obey its feelings rather than its ...
... tion designed to benefit only a small sector of the population at the ex- pense of the entire nation is often observed in democratic life . Conse- quently , a theory of democratic pluralism must have some grounds on which to assert the ...
The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy Tony Smith. tion as in domestic life , and here too foreign peoples , movements , and states may call on their American kinfolk in ways that have no domestic parallel ...
... tion , it is entirely appropriate for U.S. Latinos to help shape our policies within this hemisphere.8 Doubtless there are positive or benign consequences that nearly everyone could agree might flow from increased Latino involvement in ...
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