Title:
American foreign policy
War and conflict in the modern world
Author:
Viotti, Paul R.
ISBN:
9780745642413
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2010.
Physical Description:
xvii, 254 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series:
War and conflict in the modern world
Contents:
Foreword / by Kenneth M. Jensen -- pt. I, Peaceful engagement, containment, and armed intervention. Peaceful engagement and diplomacy ; Containment of adversaries ; Armed intervention and warfare -- pt. II, Foreign policy in the American experience. Institutionalized practices : the moralism of American exceptionalism ; Intervention and expansionism -- pt. III, Theoretical reflections and practical expectations. Elite understandings of power ; Politics on the Potomac ; Presidential power.