America's foreign policy in a changing world

Abstract

Part 1 The framework: foreign policy decisions - a beginning foreign policy and national interests a nation in search of a proper role. Part 2 Formulating foreign policy - perceptions and organization: the intellectual element of foreign policy - perspectives the organizational element - achieving co-ordination. Part 3 How Washington decides foreign policy issues: the President and Congress policymaking and bureaucracy the public context. Part 4 Cold War problems: the Cold War and the Korean War escalating tension - Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis into and out of Vietnam a approach to Cold War problems the last decade of the Cold War summing up the book so far. Part 5 Contemporary problems in US foreign policy: the Societ Union dissolved and Eastern Europe freed - implications the European Community ancient cultures and enduring enmities - the Middle East Japan and the future of Asia new problems on the agenda guidelines for American foreign policy in a complex world.