The US Public and American Foreign Policy (Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy)

✍ Scribed by Andrew Johnstone, Helen Laville

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Though often overlooked, public opinion has always played a significant role in the development and promotion of US foreign policy and this work seeks to comprehensively assess the impact and nature of that opinion through a collection of historical and contemporary essays. The volume evaluates the role of organizations and movements that look to represent public opinion, and assesses the nature of their relationship with the government. The contributors utilize a number of different approaches to examine this impact, including polling data, assessments of the role of the media, and the wider consideration of ideas and ideology, moving on to examine the specific role played by the public in the policy making and policy promotion process. Engaging with new questions as well as approaching old questions from a new angle, the work argues that whilst the roles change, and the extent of influence varies, the power of the public to both initiate and constrain foreign policy clearly exists and should not be underestimated. This work will be of great interest to all those with an interest in American foreign policy, American politics and American history.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 18
Section One: The public and war......Page 28
2 From coast defense to embalmed beef: The in.uence of the press and public opinion on McKinley’s policymaking during the Spanish–American war......Page 30
3 To mobilize a nation: Citizens’ organizations and intervention on the eve of World War II......Page 43
4 Power to the people? American public opinion and the Vietnam war......Page 58
Section Two: Public interests and ideology......Page 74
5 Organized labor and the social foundations of American diplomacy, 1898–1920......Page 76
6 Religion and world order at the dawn of the American century......Page 90
7 Gender apartheid? American women and women’s rights in American foreign policy......Page 104
Section Three: Interests and ethnicity......Page 122
8 African Americans and US foreign policy: The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa and the Rhodesian crisis......Page 124
9 The American public and the US–Israeli “special” relationship......Page 140
10 The Cuban lobby and US policy toward Cuba......Page 155
Section Four: The public and the war on terror......Page 170
11 Neoconservatism and the American public: Was 9/11 a hegemonic moment?......Page 172
12 “You don’t launch a marketing campaign in August”: The Bush Administration and the public before and after the Iraq invasion......Page 189
Bibliography......Page 207
Index......Page 222