A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy: Tragic Choices and the Limits of Rationality (Citizen Guides to Politics and Publi,Used
A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy: Tragic Choices and the Limits of Rationality (Citizen Guides to Politics and Publi,Used
A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy: Tragic Choices and the Limits of Rationality (Citizen Guides to Politics and Publi,Used

A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy: Tragic Choices and the Limits of Rationality (Citizen Guides to Politics and Publi,Used

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American foreign policy often looks like a trail of manmade debris and disaster. Of course, the explanations for many poorlymade decisions are rather complex. In this brief and cogent analysis, Houghton shows us that understanding American foreign policy often comes down to recognizing the cognitive limitations of the decisionmakers, which affects the foreign policy process. Then there is the nature of the decisions themselves. Quite a few decisions in American foreign policy involve tragic choices, where leaders are effectively confronted with a series of progressively bad or uncomfortable options. And it is equally clear that some policies are not the product of any one individuals preferences, but emerge as a consequence of the way in which complex modern governments with large bureaucracies operate.Written with the interested layperson in mind, as well as students of international affairs, this Citizens Guide to American Foreign Policy asks questions like, "Why do presidents so often do things which seem to be directly against the national interests of the United States not just in retrospect, but even at the time?" "Why do there seem to be so many fiascoes in US foreign policy?" "Why does Congress sometimes tie the hands of the president in foreign affairs?" "Why do presidents seem to respond more to opinion polls or to whats on CNN and Fox News than they do to the core interests of the United States?" Houghtons overview helps us see past the partisan infighting that too often obscures the central issues in foreign affairs. This is vital, required reading for all readers who wish to better understand Americas involvement in the world.

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