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Defining the national interest : conflict and change in American foreign policy

The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. Addressing the question of why the nation's leaders find it so difficult to define the national interst, Peter Trubowitz offers a new and compelling conception of American foreign policy and the forces that shape it. Defining the National Interest exemplifies how interdisciplinary scholarship can yield a deeper understanding of the connections between domestic and international change in an era of globalization
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©1998
Case studies
xvi, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780226813028, 9780226813035, 0226813029, 0226813037
36783840
Regional conflict and coalitions in the making of an American foreign policy
Sectional conflict and the great debates of the 1890s
North-South Alliance and the triumph of internationalism in the 1930s
The rise of the sunbelt: America resurgent in the 1980s
Geopolitics and foreign policy