Logics of American Foreign Policy: Theories of America's World Role

An objective presentation of ideals and theory allows a deeper understanding of debates, permits the student to form an independent judgment of U.S. foreign policy. This book introduces American Foreign Policy through the presentation of the most important logics used in contemporary debates, emphasizes the six most important foreign policy logics competing to define U.S. foreign policy, and identifies the five traditions of American political culture. Instructors would prefer to introduce American diplomacy through the use of contemporary logics and historical traditions.