Edited by David Skidmore, Professor, Department of Political Science, Drake University, USA

• ContentsIntroduction: the varied and changing sources of American foreign policy 1David SkidmorePART I THE UNITED STATES AND ITS EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT1 Explaining patterns of multilateralism and unilateralism in Americanforeign policy 11David Skidmore2 America and international institutions in the twenty-first century 26Terrence L. Chapman3 Geopolitics and American geostrategic thinking from the nineteenthcentury to today 42David CriekemansPART II THE INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN POLICY MAKING4 The president and foreign policy making: the growth of executive power 63James M. McCormick5 The ever-evolving role of Congress in American foreign policy 78Patrick Homan6 The resurgence of bureaucratic politics in the study of American foreignpolicy 92Don Casler7 The intelligence community’s role in the foreign policy process 108Jennifer D. Kibbe8 American foreign policy decision making: Department of State versus theNational Security Council 123James M. McCormickPART III INTERESTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY9 Ethnic interest groups and United States foreign policy 142Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira and João Paolo Nicolini Gabriel10 The foreign policy consequences of partisan polarization 156Jeffrey S. Peake11 The illusion and reality of influence: think tanks and the making of U.S.foreign and defense policy 172Donald E. Abelson12 Elections and U.S. foreign policy 186Andrew Payne13 Of professors and policymakers: exploring the relationship betweeninternational relations scholarship and practice 201Paul C. AveyPART IV POLICY TOOLS14 The use of sanctions in U.S. foreign policy 219Jordan Tama15 Foreign aid as a U.S. foreign policy tool: from the Marshall Plan throughtoday 234Daniel C. Tirone and Dmitriy Nurullayev

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