LEADER 05057nam 2200613 450 001 9910794486503321 005 20210410073132.0 010 $a0-2280-0428-4 010 $a0-2280-0427-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780228004271 035 $a(CKB)4100000011516245 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6376665 035 $a(DE-B1597)658000 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780228004271 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/0sksfr 035 $a(PPN)259959448 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011516245 100 $a20210410d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNational security entrepreneurs and the making of American foreign policy /$fVincent Boucher, Charles-Philippe David, and Karine Pre?mont with the collaboration of Florence Darveau Routhier 210 1$aMontreal :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 480 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-2280-0335-0 311 $a0-2280-0334-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tTables and Figures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction ? The Origins and Significance of National Security Council Entrepreneurs -- $tNSC Entrepreneurship: A Framework of Analysis -- $tAgainst the Americanization of the Vietnam War: George W. Ball's Battle for LBJ's Heart and Mind, 1964?65 -- $tAn Offbeat Entrepreneur: Gerard C. Smith and the SALT Negotiations, 1969?72 -- $tAn Ill-Fated Success: Robert McFarlane and the ?Iranian Initiative,? 1981?85 -- $tThe Beginning of the Endgame: Anthony Lake and the Reorientation of Clinton's Bosnia Policy, 1994?95 -- $tThe Successors: Entrepreneurship in the Era of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald J. Trump -- $tConclusion - Explaining the Success and Failure of NSC Entrepreneurship: Findings and Perspectives for Future Research -- $tAppendix -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSince the advent of the contemporary US national security apparatus in 1947, entrepreneurial public officials have tried to reorient the course of the nation's foreign policy. Acting inside the National Security Council system, some principals and high-ranking officials have worked tirelessly to generate policy change and innovation on the issues they care about. These entrepreneurs attempt to set the foreign policy agenda, frame policy problems and solutions, and orient the decision-making process to convince the president and other decision makers to choose the course they advocate. In National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy Vincent Boucher, Charles-Philippe David, and Karine Prémont develop a new concept to study entrepreneurial behaviour among foreign policy advisers and offer the first comprehensive framework of analysis to answer this crucial question: why do some entrepreneurs succeed in guaranteeing the adoption of novel policies while others fail? They explore case studies of attempts to reorient US foreign policy waged by National Security Council entrepreneurs, examining the key factors enabling success and the main forces preventing the adoption of a preferred option: the entrepreneur's profile, presidential leadership, major players involved in the policy formulation and decision-making processes, the national political context, and the presence or absence of significant opportunities. By carefully analyzing significant diplomatic and military decisions of the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton administrations, and offering a preliminary account of contemporary national security entrepreneurship under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, this book makes the case for an agent-based explanation of foreign policy change and continuity. 606 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xDecision making$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNational security$zUnited States$xDecision making$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xStaff$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical consultants$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$xDecision making$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y20th century 615 0$aPresidents$xDecision making$xHistory 615 0$aNational security$xDecision making$xHistory 615 0$aPresidents$xStaff$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical consultants$xHistory 676 $a353.0089 700 $aBoucher$b Vincent$f1989-$01554676 702 $aRouthier$b Florence Darveau 702 $aPre?mont$b Karine$f1973- 702 $aDavid$b Charles Philippe 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794486503321 996 $aNational security entrepreneurs and the making of American foreign policy$93816051 997 $aUNINA