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

• Autore: Stevenson Charles A.
• Pubblicazione: Los Angeles : , : SAGE, , [2013]; ?2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiii, 382 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
• Disciplina: 327.73
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations; United States Foreign relations administration
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: America's foreign policy toolkit
• ISBN: 1-4833-4962-4; 1-4833-0181-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828430203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II