Ebook: New Directions in US Foreign Policy (Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy)

This text presents an overview of U.S. foreign policy. It provides a comprehensive account of the latest theoretical perspectives, the key actors and issues, and new policy directions. Realism / Thomas M. Kane -- Constructivism, US foreign policy and the 'war on terror' / Richard Jackson and Matt McDonald -- Neo-conservatism : theory and practice / Robert Singh -- Liberalism and neoliberalism / Timothy J. Lynch -- Marxism and US foreign policy / Doug Stokes -- Parties, partisanship and US foreign policy : the growing divide / Steven Hurst -- What were they thinking? Think tanks, the Bush presidency and US foreign policy / Donald E. Abelson -- Intellectuals and US foreign policy / Aggie Hirst -- Christian evangelicals and US foreign policy / Stuart Croft -- American foreign policy after the Bush administration : insights from the public / James M. McCormick -- Race, African-Americans and US foreign policy / Mark Ledwidge -- Translatlantic relations and US foreign policy / David Hastings Dunn -- US national security : still an ambiguous symbol? Still an illusion? ; The US and the Middle East in theory and practice since 9/11 / Linda B. Miller -- The US and the UN : the return of the prodigal son? / Craig N. Murphy -- Democracy promotion and the New Public Diplomacy / Giles Scott-Smith and Martijn Mos -- Illusions of empire and the spectre of decline / Nicholas Kitchen and Michael Cox -- Internationally recognized core labor standards under the George W. Bush administration / Christopher Candland