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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828430203321

Autore

Stevenson Charles A.

Titolo

America's foreign policy toolkit : key institutions and processes / / Charles A. Stevenson, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles : , : SAGE, , [2013]

?2013

ISBN

1-4833-4962-4

1-4833-0181-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 382 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

327.73

Soggetti

United States Foreign relations

United States Foreign relations administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-364) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction: tools and tool users -- The framer's design -- Following the blueprint -- The president's toolkit -- Congress's toolkit -- Shared tools of the budgetary process -- The diplomatic instrument -- The economic instruments -- The military instrument -- The secret intelligence instruments -- The homeland security instruments -- The international institutions instrument -- Elephants in the workshop -- Missing tools.

Sommario/riassunto

How is foreign policy in the United States really crafted? Who does the work? How are the various activities of the many key participants coordinated and controlled? In 'America's Foreign Policy Toolkit', Charles A. Stevenson identifies for students what the key foreign policy tools are, clarifies which tools are best for which tasks, describes the factors that constrain or push how they're used, and provides fresh insight into the myriad challenges facing national security decisionmakers.