Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy

by Tony Smith

Book Overview

Who speaks for America in world affairs? In this insightful new book, Tony Smith finds that, often, the answer is interest groups, including ethnic ones. This seems natural in a country defined by ethnic and cultural diversity and a democratic political system. And yet, should not the nation's foreign policy be based on more general interests? On American national interests?

In exploring this question, Smith ranges over the history of ethnic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674015878
• ISBN13: 9780674015876
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.4"