American Foreign Policy and Political Ambition

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Tables, Figures, and Maps Regional Maps Preface About the Author I. LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS 1. The Impacts of American Foreign Policy 2. Analyzing Modern American Foreign Policy: Competing Approaches 3. The Past as Prologue: American Foreign Policy from the American Evolution through World War II 4. The Cold War II. FOREIGN POLICY PROCESSES - INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT 5. The President and Congress 6. Government Agencies, Economic Issues, and Foreign Policy 7. The Impact of Extra-Governmental Factors on American Foreign Policy: Political Parties, Interest Groups, the Mass Media, and Public Opinion III. U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN REGIONAL CONTEXTS 8. The United States and Europe: A Parting of the Ways? 9. Inter-American Relations 10. The United States and Sub-Saharan Africa 11. The United States in Asia: The Coming Clash with China? 12. The United States, Israel, and Its Neighbors 13. The U.S. Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Their Origins (and Legality) 14. The Evolution and Conclusion of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 15. U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century Bibliography Glossary For Further Research Index