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Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, American Foreign Policy focuses on foreign policy strategy as well as foreign policy politics. The heavily revised Fifth Edition offers greater emphasis on the role that domestic politics and institutions (both formal and informal)... Read Full Overview

Addressing both foreign policy strategy and foreign policy politics, Bruce Jentleson--respected scholar, award-winning teacher, and foreign policy practitioner--offers students the theoretical framework, historical context, and policy analysis essential for understanding American... Read Full Overview

This lively and engaging book for second year undergraduates offers a framework for foreign policy analysis, based on international relations theory and United States diplomatic history. Focusing on foreign policy strategy and foreign policy politics, the author shows how to... Read Full Overview

A primary text for courses on American foreign policy, encompassing both foreign policy strategy and foreign policy politics. Part I provides theory and history for establishing a framework for the dynamics of choice, and Part II applies this framework to the post-Cold War foreign... Read Full Overview

American Foreign Policy helps students approach these issues by applying a consistent critical framework throughout the text, emphasizing both the strategic and political aspects of foreign policy decision-making. With new readings and pedagogy in the text and a new Web site... Read Full Overview