Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy

by Peter Trubowitz

Book Overview

The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. Why do the nation's leaders find it so difficult to define the national interest?

Peter Trubowitz offers a new and compelling conception of American foreign policy and the domestic geopolitical forces that shape and animate it. Foreign policy conflict, he argues, is grounded in America's regional diversity. The uneven nature of America's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226813037
• ISBN13: 9780226813035
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"