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Choosing to Lead
Understanding Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs
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Ralph G. Carter
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
About this book
Assesses Congress's role in U.S. foreign policy making, focusing on congressional foreign policy "entrepreneurs" who try to either change or create new foreign policies without specific prompting from the executive branch.
Author / Editor information
Ralph G. Carter is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Texas Christian University. He is a co-author of Making American Foreign Policy and the editor of Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade.
James M. Scott is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Deciding to Intervene: The Reagan Doctrine and American Foreign Policy, also published by Duke University Press; co-author of The Politics of United States Foreign Policy and American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process; and editor of After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post–Cold War World, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
“I now see the foreign policy-making process in a different light than I did before reading Choosing to Lead. Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott show that Congress can and regularly does play an important role in foreign policy making. In the future, foreign-policy analysts will have to consider that role rather than assume that only the Oval Office matters.”—A. Cooper Drury, author of Economic Sanctions and Presidential Decisions: Models of Political Rationality
“Two scholars reveal here the fascinating stories of enterprising American lawmakers who’ve exerted extraordinary personal influence in the making of American foreign policy. Sometimes unnoted in contemporary writings and occasionally unappreciated, some were surprisingly successful and some stunningly selfless. Choosing to Lead is historically significant and interestingly written.”—Jim Wright, Former Speaker, U. S. House of Representatives
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 3, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9780822390909
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
312
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38 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780822390909
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
