SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
(INCLUDING AMERICAN MEDIA AND FOREIGN POLICY SOURCES)
(Bibliographic Essays of recommended readings are included at the end of
each chapter in Jerel Rosati, The Politics of United States Foreign
Policy)
Contemporary Affairs. You have the opportunity to
follow contemporary affairs through the American media during this Summer
Institute. The national news--on network television or on National Public
Radio--is strongly encouraged. You should also familiarize yourself with the
litany of magazines and journals which present a host of intellectual,
opinion, and policy positions. Such journals can be found in the Thomas
Cooper Library, the Walker Institute of International Studies Library
located on the Fourth Floor of Gambrell Hall, the Richland County Public
Library on Assembly Street, and the bookstore Intermezzo (next to
Goatfeather's). All the sources below can also be found on the internet.
American Media Sources for Following Contemporary Affairs.
TV:
National News (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN)
The News with Brian Williams (MSNBC, CNBC)
Nightline (ABC), M-F 11:30-12:00 pm
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (PBS), M-F 6:00-7:00 pm
This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts (ABC), Sunday 10:30-11:30 am
Face the Nation (CBS), Sunday 12:00-12:30 pm
Meet the Press (NBC), Sunday 9:00-10:00 am
60 Minutes (CBS), Sunday 7:00-8:00 pm
Frontline (PBS), Tuesday 10:00-11:00 pm
CSPAN
MSNBC and CNBC (at night)
West Wing (NBC), Friday, 9-10 pm
Radio:
Morning Edition (NPR), M-F 6:00-8:00 am
All Things Considered (NPR), M-F 4:00-6:00 pm
Weekend Edition (NPR), Sat 8:00-10:00 am; Sun 9:00-11:00 am
The World (NPR), M-F 3-4 pm
Newspapers:
The State
New York Times
Washington Post
International Herald Tribune
Wall Street Journal
Newsweeklies:
In These Times
Newsweek
Time
U.S. News and World Report
Intellectual/Opinion journals:
American Prospect
Atlantic Monthly
Commentary
Chronicles
Dissent
Nation
National Review
New Republic
New York Review of Books
Progressive
Reason
Utne Reader
Z Magazine
Policy journals:
Foreign Policy
Foreign Affairs
International Security
National Interest
Orbis
World Policy Journal
Department of State Bulletin
Scholarly journals:
International Organization
International Social Science Journal
International Studies Quarterly
International Studies Perspectives
Journal of Conflict Resolution
International Studies Review
Political Psychology
Political Science Quarterly
Presidential Studies Quarterly
World Politics
Other programs, magazines, and literature are available, as well as
fictional accounts (e.g., novels, movies) with important political messages.
SURVEYS AND OVERVIEWS
The Politics of United States Foreign Policy
James C. Scott, ed., After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the
Post-Cold War World (Duke University Press, 1998)
Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time (Vintage, 1976)
Hedrick Smith, The Power Game: How Washington Really Works (Ballentine,
1988), introduction
Jerel A. Rosati, ed., Readings in the Politics of United States Foreign
Policy (Harcourt Brace, 1998)
Roger Hilsman, To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the
Administration of John F. Kennedy (New York: Delta, 1967)
Barry R. Posen and Andrew L. Ross, "Competing U.S. Grand Strategies," in
International Security 21(Winter 1996-97), pp. 5-53
Jerel Rosati, "U.S. Leadership into the Next Millennium: A Question of
Politics." International Journal 52 (Spring 1997), 297-315
HISTORICAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT
Walter LaFeber, The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad
Since 1750 (New York: Norton, 1994)
Michael H. Hunt, Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in
Vietnam, 1945-1968 (Hill and Wang, 1996)
Richard W. Van Alstyne, The American Empire: Its Historical Pattern and
Evolution (London: Historical Association, General Series Number 43
Pamphlet, 1960), pp. 3-28
Bradford Perkins, Tragedy of American Diplomacy": Twenty-Five Years Later,"
in The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, by William Appleman Williams
(New York: Norton, 1988), pp. 313-330
Walter LaFeber, "The "Lion in the Path": The U.S. Emergence as a World
Power," Political Science Quarterly (1986), pp. 705-718
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "America and Empire," in The Cycles of American
History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), pp. 118-162
William Appleman Williams, "The Rise of An American World Power Complex," in
The Struggle Against History, edited by Neal Houghton (Washington
Square Press, 1968), pp. 1-19
Walter A. McDougall, "Back to Bedrock: The Eight Traditions of American
Statecraft," Foreign Affairs (March/April 1997), pp. 134-146
James Kurth, "America's Grand Strategy: A Pattern of History," National
Interest (Spring 1996), pp. 3-19
Thomas A. Bailey, "America's Emergence as a World Power: The Myth and the
Verity," Pacific Historical Review 30 (February 1961)
Frank Ninkovich, "Interests and Discourse in Diplomatic History,"
Diplomatic History 13 (Spring 1989)
Paul Kennedy, "The (Relative) Decline of America," Atlantic Monthly
(August 1987), pp. 29-38
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. "The Changing Nature of World Power," Political
Science Quarterly 105 (Summer 1990), pp. 177-92
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. "Soft Power," Foreign Policy 80 (Fall 1990), pp.
153-71
Paul Kennedy, "Fin-de-Siecle America," New York Review of Books (June
28, 1990), pp. 31-40
Paul Kennedy, "The American Prospect," New York Review of Books
(March 4, 1993), pp. 42-53
Lincold Bloomfield, "Planning Foreign Policy: Can it be Done?," Political
Science Quarterly 93 (Fall 1978), pp. 369-92
Peter Gourevitch, "The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of
Domestic Politics," International Organization 32 (Autumn 1978, pp.
881-912
Bruce Russett, "The Mysterious Case of Vanishing Hegemony; or, Is Mark Twain
Really Dead?," International Studies Organization 39 (Spring 1985),
pp. 207-32
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "The Misleading Metaphor of Decline," The Atlantic
Monthly (March 1990), pp. 86-94
Terry L. Deibel, "Bush's Foreign Policy: Mastery and Inaction," Foreign
Policy 84 (Fall 1991), pp. 3-23
Robert L. Borosage, "Inventing the Threat: Clinton's Defense Budget,"
World Policy Journal (Winter 1993/94), pp. 7-15
Martin Walker, "Present at the Solution: Madeleine Albright's Ambitious
Foreign Policy," World Policy Journal (Spring 1997), pp. 1-10
Mark Danner, "The U.S. and the Yugoslav Catastrophe," New York Review of
Books (November 20, 1997), pp. 56-64
Mark Danner, "Slouching Toward Dayton," New York Review of Books
(April 23, 1998), pp. 59-65
Brian Urquhart, "The Making of a Scapegoat," The New York Review of Books
(August 12, 1999), pp. 32-35
Eliot Cohen, "Down the Hatch: Dump the Bottom-up Review," New Republic
(March 7, 1994), pp. 14-19
Walter Russell Mead, "Saul Among the Prophets: The Bush Administration and
the New World Order," World Policy Journal (Summer 1991), pp. 375-420
Benjamin Schwarz, "The Vision Thing: Sustaining the Unsustainable," World
Policy Journal (Winter 1994/95), pp. 101-121
Owen Harries, "My So-called Foreign Policy: The Case for Clinton's
Diplomacy," New Republic (October 10, 1994), pp. 24-31
David Rieff, "Whose Internationalism, Whose Isolationism?" World Policy
Journal (Summer 1996), pp. 1-12
Martin Walker, "The New American Hegemony," World Policy Journal
(Summer 1996), pp. 13-22
Joel H. Rosenthal, "Henry Stimson's Clue: Is Progressive Internationalism on
the Wane?" World Policy Journal (Fall 1997), pp. 53-62
Peter R. Andreas, Eva C. Bertram, Morris J. Blachman, and Kenneth E. Sharpe,
"Dead-End Drug Wars," Foreign Policy (Winter 1991-92), pp. 106-128
David A. Baldwin, "Security Studies and the End of the Cold War," World
Politics 48 (October 1995), pp. 117-141
Richard K. Betts, "Should Strategic Studies Survive," World Politics
(50 (October 1997), pp. 7-33
Robert Kuttner, The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global
Economy After the Cold War (New York: Knopf, 1991), pp. 3-81, 262-287
Robert Kagan, " What Korea Teaches: Models, Principles, and the Future of
Democracy in Asia," The New Republic (March 9, 1998), pp. 38-47
Pietro S. Nivola, "Commercializing Foreign Affairs? American Trade Policy
After the Cold War," in U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War,
edited by Randall B. Ripley and James M. Lindsay (Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1997), pp. 235-256
Robert Wade, "The Coming Fight over Capital Flows," Foreign Policy
111 (Winter 1998-99), pp. 41-54
Richard Rosecrance, "The Rise of the Virtual State: Implications for U.S.
Policy," Foreign Affairs 75 (July/August 1996), pp.
Peter Beinart, "An Illusion For Our Time: The False Promise of
Globalization," New Republic (October 20, 1997), pp. 20-24
Richard N. Gardner, "Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy in Current Perspective,"
International Affairs 62 (Winter 1985-86), pp. 21-33
Jonathan Kwitny, "The Bankers, the Businessmen, and the Lawyers," in
Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World (New York: Penguin,
1984), pp. 8-30
Benjamin J. Cohen, ""Return to Normalcy"? Global Economic Policy at the End
of the Century," in Eagle Adrift: American Foreign Policy at the End of
the Century, edited by Robert J. Lieber (New York: Longman, 1997), pp.
73-99
Walter Russell Mead, "On the Road to Ruin: Winning the Cold War, Losing the
Economic Peace," Harper's (March 1990), pp. 59-65
Ethan B. Kapstein, "We Are U.S.: The Myth of the Multinational," The
National Interest (Winter 1991/92), pp. 55-62
Charles P. Kindleberger, "U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 1776-1976,"
Foreign Affairs (January 1977), pp. 395-417
Jennifer Sterling-Folker," "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Assertive
Multilateralism and Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy," in After the End:
Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1998), pp. 277-304
Rick Travis, "The Promotion of Democracy at the End of the Twentieth
Century: A New Polestar for American Foreign Policy?" in After the End:
Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1998), pp. 251-276
John T. Rourke and Richard Clark, "Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward China
in the Clinton Administration," in After the End: Making U.S. Foreign
Policy in the Post-Cold War World (Durham, NC: Duke University ---Press,
1998), pp. 201-224
Robert Buzzanco, "What Happened to the New Left? Toward a Radical Reading of
American Foreign Relations," Diplomatic History 23 (Fall 1999), pp.
575-607
Christopher Layne, "From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's
Future Grand Strategy," International Security 22 (Summer 1997), pp.
86-124
Richard Ullman, "The U.S. and the World: An Interview with George Kennan,"
The New York Review of Books (August 12, 1999), pp. 4-6
Jerel Rosati, "Extending the Three-Headed and Four-Headed Eagles: The
Foreign Policy Orientations of American Elites During the Eighties and
Nineties." With John Creed. Political Psychology 18 (September 1997),
pp. 583-623.
Robert W. Tucker, "The Future of a Contradiction," National Interest
(Spring 1996), pp. 20-27
Jerel Rosati, "Cycles in Foreign Policy Restructuring: The Politics of
Continuity and Change in U.S. Foreign Policy." In Foreign Policy
Restructuring: How Governments Respond to Global Change, edited by Jerel
A. Rosati, Joe D. Hagan, and Martin W. Sampson (Columbia, SC: University of
South Carolina Press, 1994), pp. 221-61.
John Lewis Gaddis, "Toward the Post-Cold War World," in The United States
and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 193-216
Coral Bell, "American Ascendancy--And the Pretense of Concert," The
National Interest 57 (Fall 1999), pp. 55-63
Samuel P. Huntington, "The Lonely Superpower," Foreign Affairs
(March/April 1999), pp. 35-49
Gary Wills, "Bully of the Free World," Foreign Affairs (March/April
1999), pp. 50-59
Henry Luce, "The American Century," Diplomatic History 23 (Spring
1999), pp. 157-171
Tony Smith, "Making the World Safe for Democracy," Diplomatic History
23 (Spring 1999), pp. 189-218
Geir Lundestad, "'Empire by Invitation' in the American Century,"
Diplomatic History 23 (Spring 1999), pp, 189-218
Walter LaFeber, "The Tension between Democracy and Capitalism during the
American Century," Diplomatic History 23 (Spring 1999), pp. 263-284
Mark Danner, "Marooned in the Cold War: America, the Alliance, and the Quest
for a Vanished World," World Policy Journal (Fall 1997), pp. 1-23
Robert Kagan, "The Benevolent Empire," Foreign Policy (Summer 1998),
pp. 24-35
Charles William Maynes, "The Perils of (and for) an Imperial America,"
Foreign Policy (Summer 1998), pp. 36-48
Paul Kennedy, "The Next American Century?" World Policy Journal
(Spring 1999), pp. 52-58
Avery Goldstein, "Great Expectations: Interpreting China's Arrival,"
International Security 22 (Winter 1997/98), pp. 36-73
John Orme, "The Utility of Force in a World of Scarcity," International
Security 22 (Winter 1997/98), pp. 138-167
Fared Zakaria, "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy?" Foreign Affairs
(November-December 1997)
Daniel Bell, "The Future World Disorder," Foreign Policy (Summer
1977), pp. 109-135
Louis J. Halle, "A Hopeful Future for Mankind," Foreign Affairs
(Summer 1980), pp. 1129-1136
GOVERNMENT AND THE POLICYMAKING PROCESS
Presidency and NSC
William Newmann, Causes of Change in National Security Processes: Carter,
Reagan, and Bush Decision Making on Arms Control," Presidential Studies
Quarterly 31 (March 2001), pp. 69-103
Richard E. Neustadt, Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership
(New York: John Wiley, 1960)
Fred I. Greenstein, "Ronald Reagan--Another Hidden-Hand Ike?" PS:
Political Science & Politics (March 1990), pp. 7-13
Cecil V. Crabb and Kevin V. Mulcahy, "George Bush's Management Style and
Operation Desert Storm," Presidential Studies Quarterly 25 (Spring
1995), pp. 251-65
Kevin V. Mulcahy and Harold F. Kendrick, "The National Security Adviser: A
Presidential Perspective," in Colin Campbell and Margaret Jane Wyszomirsky,
editors, Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Systems (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), pp. 259-79
Henry Kissinger, "Getting Organized," in White House Years (Boston:
Little, Brown, 1979), pp. 39-48
Kevin V. Mulcahy, "The Secretary of State and the National Security Adviser:
Foreign Policymaking in the Carter and Reagan Administrations,"
Presidential Studies Quarterly 16 (Spring 1986), pp. 280-99
U.S., National Security Act of 1947, "National Security Council,"
Fred I. Greenstein, "The Two Leadership Styles of William Jefferson
Clinton," Political Psychology 15 (June 1994), pp. 351-61
Garry Wills, "Clinton's Troubles," New York Review of Books
(September 22, 1994), pp. 4-8
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National
Security Adviser, 1977-1981 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983), pp. 57-78
Margaret G. Hermann, "Presidential Leadership Style, Advisory Systems, and
Policy Making: Bill Clinton's Administration After Seven Months,"
Political Psychology 15 (June 1994), pp. 363-74
Jason DePared, "The Man Inside Bill Clinton's Foreign Policy," New York
Times Magazine (August 20, 1995), pp. 33-39, 46, 55, 56
Richard M. Pious, The American Presidency, (Basic Books, 1979),
introduction, chapter 2, and conclusion
Fred I. Greenstein and John P. Burke, "The Dynamics of Presidential Reality
Testing: Evidence from Two Vietnam Decisions," Political Science
Quarterly 104 (Winter 1989-90), pp. 557-80
James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy (Basic Books, 1989), preface, chapters
1-6
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National
Security Adviser, 1977-1981 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983), pp. 57-78
Margaret G. Hermann, "Presidential Leadership Style, Advisory Systems, and
Policy Making: Bill Clinton's Administration After Seven Months,"
Political Psychology 15 (June 1994), pp. 363-74
Jason DePared, "The Man Inside Bill Clinton's Foreign Policy," New York
Times Magazine (August 20, 1995), pp. 33-39, 46, 55, 56
Richard M. Pious, The American Presidency, (Basic Books, 1979),
introduction, chapter 2, and conclusion
Fred I. Greenstein and John P. Burke, "The Dynamics of Presidential Reality
Testing: Evidence from Two Vietnam Decisions," Political Science
Quarterly 104 (Winter 1989-90), pp. 557-80
Fred I. Greenstein, "The Presidential Leadership Style of Bill Clinton: An
Early Appraisal," Political Science Quarterly 108 (Winter 1993-94),
pp. 589-601
Jacob Heilbrunn, "Lake Inferior," New Republic (September 20 & 27,
1993), pp. 29-35
State and Military
Eliot A. Cohen, "Defending America in the Twenty-First Century," Foreign
Affairs (November/December 2000), pp. 40-56
Peter J. Roman and David W. Tarr, "The Joint Chiefs of Staff: From Service
Parochialism to Jointness," Political Science Quarterly 113 (Spring
1998), pp. 91-112
Strobe Talbott, "Globalization and Diplomacy: A Practitioner's Perspective,"
Foreign Policy (Fall 1997), pp. 69-83
George L. Vistica, "Anchors Aweigh," Newsweek (February 5, 1996), pp.
68-71
James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do
It (Basic Books, 1989)
Harry Crosby, "Too At Home Abroad," The Washington Monthly (September
1991), pp. 16-20
U.S., Department of State, State 2000: A New Model for Managing Foreign
Affairs (Report of the Management Task Force, December 1992), pp. 3-16
Barry Schweid, "Warren's World," Foreign Policy (Spring 1994), pp.
137-47
David C. Jones, "What's Wrong with Our Defense Establishment," New York
Times Magazine (November 7, 1982)
Ronald H. Spector, "U.S. Army Strategy in the Vietnam War," International
Security (Spring 1987), pp. 130-34
Gregg Easterbrook, "Operation Desert Shill," New Republic (September
30, 1991), pp. 32-42
John Barry and Roger Charles, "Sea of Lies," Newsweek (July 13,
1992), pp. 29-39
Carol Burke, "Dames at Sea," New Republic (August 17 & 24, 1992), pp.
16-20
Bert A. Rockman, "America's Department of State: Irregular and Regular
Syndromes of Policy Making," American Political Science Review 75
(December 1981), pp. 911-927
Duncan L. Clarke, "Why State Can't Lead," Foreign Policy (Spring
1987), pp. 128-142
Charlton Ogburn, Jr., "The Flow of Policy-Making in the Department of
State," in The Formulation and Administration of United States Foreign
Policy (Brookings, 1960), edited by H. Field Haviland, Jr., pp. 172-77
Richard K. Betts, Soldiers, Statesmen and Cold War Crises (Harvard
University Press, 1977), pp. 116-38
Martin Binkin, "The New Face of the American Military," Brookings Review
(Summer 1991), pp. 7-13
Eliot A. Cohen, "Constraints on America's Conduct of Small Wars,"
International Security 9 (Fall 1984), pp. 151-81
Earl H. Tilford, Jr., "The Meaning of Victory in Operation Desert Storm: A
Review Essay," Political Science Quarterly 108 (Summer 1993), pp.
327-331
Eliot A. Cohen, "After the Battle," New Republic (April 1, 1991)
Carl E. Vuone, "Desert Storm and the Future of Conventional Forces,"
Foreign Affairs (Spring 1991), pp. 49-68
Eliot A. Cohen, "Down the Hatch," New Republic (March 7, 1994), pp.
14-19
Richard H. Kohn, "Out of Control: The Crisis in Civil-Military Relations,"
National Interest (Spring 1994), pp. 3-17
Lawrence J. Korb, "Peace Without Dividend: Why We Can't Seem to Cut the
Defense Budget," Washington Post (July 9, 1995).
Charles Lane, "The Newest War," Newsweek (January 6, 1992), pp.
18-23.
Charles Moskos, "How Do They Do It?" The New Republic (August 5,
1991), pp. 16-20.
Robert L. Borosage, "Inventing the Threat: Clinton's Defense Budget,"
World Policy Journal (Winter 1993/94), pp. 7-15
Intelligence and Foreign Economics
Melvin A. Goodwin, "Ending the CIA's Cold War Legacy," Foreign Policy
(Spring 1997), pp. 128-143
Bruce Berkowitz and Allan Goodman, "The Logic of Covert Action," National
Interest (Spring 1998), pp. 38-46
Jacob Heilbrunn, "The Old Boy at War," The New Republic (March 27,
1995), pp. 32-7
Kenneth E. Sharpe, "The Real Cause of Irangate," Foreign Policy (Fall
1987), pp. 19-41
Marvin Ott, "Shaking Up the CIA," Foreign Policy 93 (Winter 1993-94),
pp. 132-51
David Karol, "Divided Government and U.S. Trade Policy: Much Ado About
Nothing?" International Organization54 (Autumn 2000), pp. 825-844
Ben Wildavsky, "Under the Gun (at the National Economic Council,"
National Journal (June 29, 1996), pp. 1417-1421
Loch K. Johnson, "Covert Action and Accountability: Decision-Making for
America's Secret Foreign Policy," International Studies Quarterly 33
(March 1989), pp. 81-109
Thomas Powers, "No Laughing Matter," The New York Review of Books
(August 10, 1995), pp. 4-6
Peter Maas, "Is He the CIA's Last, Best Hope?" Parade Magazine
(November 19, 1995), pp. 4-5
John B. Judis, "Old Master: Robert Rubin's Artful Role," New Republic
(December 13, 1993), pp. 21-28
Kim Andrew Elliott, "Too Many Voices of America," Foreign Policy 77
(Winter 1989-90), pp. 113-131
Thomas Carothers, "The NED at 10," Foreign Policy 95 (Summer 1994),
pp. 123-38
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, The CIA and American Democracy (Yale
University Press, 1989), chapter 1
Loch K. Johnson, America's Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society
(Oxford University Press, 1989), chapters 4 and 5
Richard K. Betts, "Analysis, War, and Decision: Why Intelligence Failures
are Inevitable," World Politics 31 (October 1978), pp. 61-90
Loch K. Johnson, "Smart Intelligence," Foreign Policy 89 (Winter
1992-93), pp. 53-69
Thomas Omestad, "Psychology and the CIA: Leaders on the Couch," Foreign
Policy 95 (Summer 1994), pp. 105-22
Judith Goldstein, "The Political Economy of Trade: Institutions of
Protection," American Political Science Review 80 (March 1986), pp.
161-84
Richard N. Gardner, "Selling America in the Marketplace of Ideas," New
York Times Magazine (March 20, 1983)
John Spicer Nichols, "Wasting the Propaganda Dollar," Foreign Policy
56 (Fall 1984), pp. 129-40
Keith Schneider, "New Mission at Energy Department: Bomb Makers Turn to
Cleanup," The New York Times (August 17, 1990), pp.A1, A10
Raymond F. Hopkins, "Global Management Networks: The Internationalization of
Domestic Bureaucracies," International Social Science Journal 30
(1978), pp. 31-45
The Rest of the Bureaucracy and Executive Branch Decision-Making
Graham Allison, "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis,"
American Political Science Review 58 (September 1969), pp. 689-718
Morton Halperin, "The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: Why Bureaucrats Play
Games," Foreign Policy 2 (Spring 1971), pp. 70-90
Stephen D. Krasner, "Are Bureaucracies Important? (Or Allison Wonderland),"
Foreign Policy 7 (Summer 1972), pp. 159-179
Irving L. Janis, "Groupthink," Psychology Today (November 1971)
James Thompson, "How Could Vietnam Happen," Atlantic Monthly (April
1968), pp. 47-53
Mark Hosenball, "The Odd Couple: How George Bush Helped Create Saddam
Hussein," New Republic (June 1, 1992), pp. 27-35
Theodore Draper, "The True History of the Gulf War," The New York Review
of Books (January 30, 1992), pp.38-45
Robert Art, "Bureaucratic Politics and American Foreign Policy: A Critique,"
Policy Sciences 4 (173), pp. 467-90
Smith, "The Foreign Policy Game: Bureaucratic Tribal Warfare," chapter 15
Morton H. Halperin, "The Decision to Deploy the ABM: Bureaucratic and
Domestic Politics in the Johnson Administration," World Politics 25
(October 1972), pp. 62-95
Morton H. Halperin and Arnold Kanter, eds., Readings in American Foreign
Policy (Little, Brown, 1973)
Richard Holbrook, "The Machine That Fails," Foreign Policy 1 (Winter
1970-71), pp. 65-77
James Meernik, "Presidential Decision Making and the Political Use of
Military Force," International Studies Quarterly 38 (March 1994), pp.
121-38
Murray Waas and Craig Unger, "In the Loop: Bush's Secret Mission," New
Yorker, pp. 64-83
Congress and Legislative-Executive Relations
Gary C. Jacobson, "A House and Senate Divided: The Clinton Legacy and the
Congressional Elections of 2000," Political Science Quarterly 116
(Spring 2001), pp. 5-28
Ryan C. Hendrickson, "War Powers, Bosnia, and the 104th Congress,"
Political Science Quarterly 113 (Summer 1998), pp. 241-258
Dick Kirschten, "Where's the Bite (in Jesse Helms)?" National Journal
(March 25, 1995), pp. 739-742
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "Congress and the Making of American Foreign
Policy," Foreign Affairs (1972), pp. 78-113
George Szamuely, "The Imperial Congress," Commentary (September
1987), pp.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "Imperial Temptation," New Republic (March
16, 1987), pp. 17-18
Seymour M. Hersh, "The Iran-Contra Committees: Did They Protect Reagan,"
New York Times Magazine (April 29, 1990)
Michael J. Glennon, "The Gulf War and the Constitution," Foreign Affairs
(Spring 1991), pp. 84-101
Pamela Fessler, "Congress' Record on Saddam: Decade of Talk, Not Action,"
Congressional Quarterly (April 27, 1991), pp. 1068-77
Eric Alterman, "Ron Dellums: Radical Insider," World Policy Journal
(Winter 1993/94), pp. 35-47
David S. Cloud, "Speaker Wants His Platform to Rival the Presidency,"
Congressional Quarterly (February 4, 1995), pp. 331-35
Robert S. Greenberger, "Dateline Capital Hill: The New Majority's Foreign
Policy," Foreign Policy 101 (Winter 1995-96), pp.159-69.
Thomas E. Mann, "Making Foreign Policy: President and Congress," in A
Question of Balance: The President, The Congress and Foreign Policy
(Brookings, 1990), pp. 1-34
Smith, "The Coalition Game," chapter 13; "Divided Government: Gridlock and
the Blame Game," chapter 17; and "What is to Be Done?" chapter 20
Kenneth E. Sharpe, "The Post-Vietnam Formula Under Siege: The Imperial
Presidency and Central America," Political Science Quarterly 102
(Winter 1987-88), pp. 549-69
Michael Lind, "The Out-of-Control Presidency," The New Republic
(August 14, 1995), pp.18-23
Morton H. Halperin, "Lawful Wars," Foreign Policy 72 (Fall 1988), pp.
173-95
Lloyd N. Cutler, "To Form a Government," Foreign Affairs 59 (Fall
1980), pp. 126-143
Rest of Government
Anne-Marie Slaughter and David Bosco, "Plaintiff's Diplomacy," Foreign
Affairs (September/October 2000), pp. 102-117
L. Gordon Crovitz, "Crime, the Constitution, and the Iran-Contra Affair,"
Commentary (October 1987), pp. 23030
John Canham-Clyne, "Business as Usual: Iran-Contra and the National Security
State," World Policy Journal (Fall/Winter 1992), pp. 617-638
U.S., Supreme Court, "United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation
et al.,"
U.S. Supreme Court, "Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. V. Sawyer (Steel Seizure
Case),"
Louis Henkin, "Foreign Affairs and the Constitution," Foreign Affairs
66 (Winter 1987/88), pp. 284-310
Theodore Draper, "Walsh's Last Stand," New York Review of Books
(March 3, 1994), pp. 26-30
Smith, "Life Inside the Beltway," chapter 6
Alexander L. George, "The Two Cultures of Academia and Policy-Making:
Bridging the Gap," Political Psychology 15 (March 1994), pp. 143-72
Theodore Draper, "Revelations of the North Trial," New York Review of
Books (August 17, 1989), pp. 54-59
Robert Novak, "Abrams and the Special Prosecutor," National Interest
(Fall 1992), pp. 76-82
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Michael H. Shuman, "Dateline Main Street: Local Foreign Policies,"
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"War Between the States," Newsweek (May 30, 1988), pp. 44-45
Chadwick F. Alger, "The World Relations of Cities: Closing the Gap Between
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Samuel Dash, "Saturday Night Massacre II," Foreign Policy 96 (Fall
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SOCIETY AND DOMESTIC POLITICS
Public Beliefs
Benjamin I. Page and Jason Barabas, "Foreign Policy Gaps Between Citizens
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Jeffrey W. Legro, "Whence American Internationalism," International
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Bruce W. Jentleson, "The Pretty Prudent Public: Post Post-Vietnam American
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Ole R. Holsti, "Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: Challenges to the Almond-Lippmann
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Michael Roskin, "From Pearl Harbor to Vietnam: Shifting Generational
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Tamil R. Davis and Sean M. Lynn-Jones, "City Upon a Hill," Foreign Policy
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Sidney Blumenthal, "The Return of the Repressed: Anti-Internationalism and
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Robert Y. Shapiro and Benjamin I. Page, "Foreign Policy and the Rational
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Age (Summer/Fall 1982), pp. 297-303
Ole R. Holsti and James N. Rosenau, "Consensus Lost, Consensus Regained?
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Bruce W. Jentleson, "The Domestic Politics of Desert Shield," Brookings
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A.J. Bacevich, "Charles Beard, Properly Understood," National Interest
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Jack Citrin, Ernst B. Haas, Christopher Muste, and Beth Reingold, "Is
American Nationalism Changing? Implications for Foreign Policy,"
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Barry R. Posen and Andrew L. Ross, "Competing U.S. Grand Strategies," in
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Jerel Rosati, "U.S. Leadership into the Next Millennium: A Question of
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Jerel Rosati, "Extending the Three-Headed and Four-Headed Eagles: The
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Participation, Electoral Politics, Civil Rights and Liberties
Robert S. Erikson, "The 2000 Presidential Election in Historical
Perspective," Political Science Quarterly 116 (Spring 2001), pp.
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Kate Doyle, "The End of Secrecy: U.S. National Security and the Imperatives
for Openness," World Policy Journal (Spring 1999), pp. 34-51
John H. Aldrich, John L. Sullivan, and Eugene Borgida, "Foreign Affairs and
Issue Voting: Do Presidential Candidates 'Waltz' Before a Blind Audience,"
American Political Science Review 83 (March 1989), pp. 123-41
"'94 Elections: Real Revolution or Blip on Political Radar?"
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report (November 5, 1994), pp. 16-21
James L. Gibson, "Political Intolerance and Political Repression During the
McCarthy Red Scare," American Political Science Review 82 (June
1988), pp. 511-29
Clifford T. Honicker, "The Hidden Files: America's Radiation Victims,"
The New York Times Magazine, November 19, 1989.
Keith Schneider, "Idaho Says No," The New York Times Magazine, March
11, 1990:57-61
Morton H. Halperin and Jeanne M. Woods, "Ending the Cold War at Home,"
Foreign Policy 81 (Winter 1990-91), pp. 128-43
Norman J. Ornstein and Mark Schmitt, "Dateline Campaign '92: Post-Cold War
Politics," Foreign Policy 79 (Summer 1990), pp. 169-86
Everett Carll Ladd, "The 1992 Vote for President Clinton: Another Brittle
Mandate?," Political Science Quarterly 108 (Spring 1993), pp. 1-28
Robert Justin Goldstein, Political Repression in Modern America: From
1870 to the Present (Cambridge, Ma.: Schenkman, 1978), introduction and
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James L. Gibson, "The Political Consequences of Intolerance: Cultural
Conformity and Political Freedom," American Political Science Review
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Thomas Powers, "Downwinders," The Atlantic Monthly (March 1994), pp.
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Frank Askin, "Secret Justice: When National Security Trumps Citizens
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Group Politics
Eugene Gholz and Harvey M. Sapolsky, "Restructuring the U.S. Defense
Industry," International Security (Winter 1999/2000), pp. 5-50
Jeffrey E. Garten, "Business and Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs
(May/June 1997), pp. 67-79
Thomas Borstelmann, "Jim Crow's Coming Out: Race Relations and American
Foreign Policy," Presidential Studies Quarterly 29 (September 1999),
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William Martin, "The Christian Right and American Foreign Policy,"
Foreign Policy (Spring 1999), pp. 66-81
John B. Judis, "The Contract with K Street," The New Republic
(December 4, 1995), pp. 18-25
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Farewell Address,"
Lawrence P. Frank, "The First Oil Regime," World Politics (July
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Godfrey Hodgson, "The Establishment," Foreign Policy 10 (Spring
1973), pp. 3-40
Jacob Heilbrunn, "The Real McCloy," The New Republic (May 11, 1992),
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Howard Fineman, "God and the Grass Roots," Newsweek (November 8,
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Michael Lind, "Rev. Robertson's Grand International Conspiracy Theory," The
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Korea in the United States," International Studies Quarterly 32
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Joe Conason, "The Iraq Lobby," New Republic (October 1, 1990), pp.
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James G. McGann, "Academics to Ideologues: A Brief History of the Public
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James Chace, "The Proconsul," The New York Review of Books (October
8, 1992), pp. 22-7
Brad Roberts, "The Enigmatic Trilateral Commission: Boone or Bane?"
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Deborah M. Levy, "Advice For Sale," Foreign Policy (Summer 1987), pp.
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James R. Kurth, "Why We Buy the Weapons We Do," Foreign Policy
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Fred Thompson, "Deregulating Defense Acquisition," Political Science
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Media and Communications
Jonathan Mermin, "Television News and American Intervention in Somalia: The
Myth of a Media-Driven Foreign Policy," Political Science Quarterly
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Daniel Hallin, "The Media, the War in Vietnam, and Political Support: A
Critique of the Thesis of an Oppositional Media," Journal of Politics
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Robert Parry and Peter Kornbluh, "Iran-Contra's Untold Story," Foreign
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Marie Gottschalk, "Operation Desert Cloud: The Media and the Gulf War,"
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Thomas Byrne Edsall, "America's Sweetheart," The New York Review of Books
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Tom Rosenstiel, "The Myth of CNN," The New Republic (August 22 & 29,
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Walter Karp, "Who Decides What is News? (Hint: It's Not Journalists),"
Harper's
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President's Men," Columbia Journalism Review (May/June 1990), pp.
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Eric Alterman, "Washington and the Curse of the Pundit Class: The Perversion
of U.S. Foreign Policy Discourse," World Policy Journal (Spring
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Eric Alterman, "Operation Pundit Storm," World Policy Journal
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Larry Reibstein, "The Battle of the TV News Magazine Shows," Newsweek
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Making Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Change Into the Twenty-First
Century
Roger Hilsman, To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the
Administration of John F. Kennedy (New York: Delta, 1967), chapter 35
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Insurgent Sociologist (Spring 1974), pp. 3-16
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Marc Pilosuk and Tom Hayden, "Is There a Military-Industrial Complex Which
Prevents Peace?" in American Foreign Policy: An Analytical Approach
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Theodore J. Lowi, "Making Democracy Safe for the World: National Politics
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1971), pp. 140-83
Murray Waas, "What Washington Gave Saddam," The Village Voice
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