Research Catalog

Title

Bureaucratic politics and foreign policy / Morton H. Halperin, Priscilla A. Clapp with Arnold Kanter.

Author

Halperin, Morton H.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Clapp, Priscilla.
• Kanter, Arnold.

Description

xi, 400 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Analyzes the role played by the federal bureaucracy--civilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers--and Congress in formulating U.S. national security policy, illustrating how bureaucratic maneuvering influences policy decisions and our international relations"--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

United States > Foreign relations administration

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-378) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- 1. The ABM Puzzle: An Introduction to Politics inside Government -- Part 1. Interests and Participants -- 2. National Security Interests -- 3. Organizational Interests -- 4. Domestic Politics and Presidential Interests -- 5. Interests, Faces, and Stands -- Part 2. Decisions -- 6. Initiative and Rules -- 7. Planning a Decision Strategy -- 8. Information and Arguments -- 9. Maneuvers to Affect Information -- 10. Uses of the Press -- 11. Involving the President -- 12. Influence and Decisions -- Part 3. Actions -- 13. Decisions and Implementation -- 14. Actions in the Field -- 15. Presidential Control -- Part 4. Congress -- 16. Congress and Bureaucratic Politics -- Part 5. Conclusions -- 17. Back to ABM: Some.

ISBN

• 0815734093 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780815734093 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780815734109 (electronic bk.)

LCCN

• ^^2006026348
• 9780815734093

OCLC

• 70884998
• SCSB-11268000

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library