American Foreign Policy (with InfoTrac)
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Book Description
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY is the market leader for the American foreign policy course. Guiding students through 21st century American foreign policy by placing contemporary issues, debates, challenges, and opportunities in their historic context, this text helps students understand and assess the forces underlying continuity and change. This Sixth Edition retains the book's effective analytical framework. Harnessing the conceptual, theoretical, and historical components that facilitate analysis of American foreign policy, the text maintains that five sources--international, societal, governmental, role, and individual--collectively influence decisions about foreign policy goals and the means chosen to realize them. Readers will come away from this text with knowledge of how the enduring principles, values and interests of the United States (peace and prosperity, stability and security, democracy and defense) define and reinforce the ability of policymakers to respond to changes in the international environment.
About the Author
Eugene R. Wittkopf received his doctorate from Syracuse University and is R. Downs Poindexter Endowed Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He has also held appointments at the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wittkopf is author of FACES OF INTERNATIONALISM: PUBLIC OPINION AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY (Duke University Press, 1990), co-author of WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION (2004), and editor or co-editor of several other books. He has also published widely in the professional literature on international politics and foreign policy. He was received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Foreign Policy Analysis section of the International Studies Association in 2002. In 1977 he was named Distinguished Research Master of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences by Louisiana States University, the highest award given by the University in recognition of faculty contributions to research and scholarship. Charles W. Kegley, Jr., is Pearce Professor of International Relations at University of South Carolina. A past president of the International Studies Association (1993-1994), he has held appointments at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, Rutgers University, and the People's University of China. He has written and edited over 45 books and over 100 articles published in scholarly journals on international relations and world politics including the Wittkopf/Kegley/Scott, AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, Sixth Edition (2003). James M. Scott is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. His areas of specialization include foreign policy analysis and international relations, with particular emphasis on U.S. foreign policymaking and the domestic sources of foreign policy. He is author or editor of four books, over 40 articles, book chapters, review essays, and other publications. He has been President of the Foreign Policy Analysis section and President of the Midwest region of the International Studies Association?where he has also served as conference organizer for both sections and has been a two-time winner of the Klingberg Award for Outstanding Faculty Paper at the ISA Midwest Annual Meeting. Since 1996, he has received over two dozen awards from students and peers for his outstanding teaching and research, including his institution's highest awards for scholarship in 2000 and 2001. Since 2005, he has been Director of the Democracy and World Politics Summer Research Program, a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates.
American Foreign Policy (with InfoTrac),Eugene R. Wittkopf,Charles W. Kegley,James M. Scott,Wadsworth Publishing,0534600484,Foreign relations,General,International Relations - General,Political Science,Politics - Current Events,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,United States,21st century,International relations,Political Science / General,Political science & theory,USA
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