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This iconoclastic and fundamental work, Eric Nordlinger's last, advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "national strategy" confining U.S. military actions largely to North America and to neighboring sea-and air- lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms. In Nordlinger's view, disengaging from security commitments on distant shores would liberate the United States to use its resources and decision-making powers to act more effectively abroad in matters of economic policy and human rights. A national strategy would then become a powerful new method of.

ARTICLE REVIEWS THE CHANGE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AS A RESULT OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION AND THE TAKING OF US HOSTAGES, AS WELL AS THE SOVIET INTERVENTION IN AFGHANISTAN. THE AUTHORS ARGUE THAT, IN THE 1980 ELECTION YEAR, FOREIGN POLICY IS APT TO BECOME FRAMED WITH A HOSTILE, MILITARIST PERSPECTIVE WHICH WOULD BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE IN LATER YEARS.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Foreign Policy in International Relations -- An Initial Definition -- Competing Approaches -- The Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis -- The Changing International Context -- Argument and Structure -- 2 The Politics of Foreign Policy -- Foreign Policy for Whom? -- The State, Sovereignty and Foreign Policy -- Inside and Outside -- Agency and Structure -- Politics All the Way Down -- The Diversity of States -- 3 The Actors: Taking Responsibility -- Power at the Top -- The Foreign Policy Executive -- The Psychological Factor -- Cabinets and Other Forms of Collective Leadership -- Leading Responsibly -- 4 Agents: Bureaucracy and the Proliferation of External Relations -- Agents not Agency -- Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Diplomatic Service -- Proliferating Rivals -- Intelligence: A Special Case? -- Bureaucratic Politics and the Problem of Coordination -- The Heart of the Matter: Organizational Process -- Politicians and Officials: Can the Dog be Separated From Its Tail? -- 5 Rationality in Foreign Policy -- Rationality in Policy-Making -- Bounded Rationality -- Non-decisions in Foreign Policy -- The Power of Historical Thinking -- Own Goals -- Avoiding the Worst -- 6 Implementation: Foreign Policy Practice and the Texture of Power -- More than a Technicality -- The Faces of Power -- The Texture of Power - Hard, Soft and Plastic -- The Military Arm -- Economic Statecraft -- Diplomacy -- Culture -- Seeking Balance -- 7 Foreign Policy in a Multi-Actor World -- The Outside World -- The Politics of Geography -- Political Interdependence -- Opting Out and Other Forms of Resistance -- System Change -- 8 Transnational Reformulations -- A Transnational Environment.