Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign PolicyThe first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. Government agencies, departments, and individuals all have certain interests to preserve and promote. Those priorities, and the conflicts they sometimes spark, heavily influence the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. A decision that looks like an orchestrated attempt to influence another country may in fact represent a shaky compromise between rival elements within the U.S. government. The authors provide numerous examples of bureaucratic maneuvering and reveal how they have influenced our international relations. |
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Contents
The ABM Puzzle An Introduction to Politics inside Government | 1 |
National Security Interests | 11 |
Clues to National Security Interests | 16 |
Organizational Interests | 26 |
Organizational Essence | 28 |
Roles and Missions | 40 |
Autonomy | 51 |
Organizational Morale | 54 |
Why Information Is Leaked | 176 |
Going Outside the Executive Branch | 181 |
Presidential Speeches | 189 |
Implications for Decisions | 192 |
Involving the President | 196 |
Getting to the President | 198 |
Securing a Presidential Decision | 207 |
Influence and Decisions | 219 |
Budgets | 56 |
Organizational Stands | 58 |
Presidential Interests | 63 |
Presidential Stands | 76 |
Interests Faces and Stands | 84 |
Career Officials | 85 |
InandOuters | 89 |
Involvement and Effectiveness | 90 |
Future Elective Office | 93 |
Official Position | 94 |
Initiative and Rules | 99 |
Pressing for Decisions | 101 |
Rules of the Game | 104 |
Planning a Decisional Strategy | 116 |
Who Is Involved? | 119 |
Who Plans? | 131 |
The Limits of Planning | 133 |
Information and Arguments | 135 |
Purposes of Arguments | 136 |
Constraints on Information and Arguments | 139 |
Challenging Shared Images | 155 |
Maneuvers To Affect Information | 158 |
Presidential Efforts To Expand Information | 168 |
Uses of the Press | 173 |
Willingness To Assume Responsibility | 222 |
The Threat of Resignation | 225 |
Staff Skill | 228 |
Ability To Mobilize Outside Support | 230 |
The Elusiveness of Decisions | 232 |
Decisions and Implementation | 235 |
Limits on Faithful Implementation | 238 |
Resistance | 245 |
The Struggle over Implementation | 248 |
Actions in the Field | 261 |
Evading Instructions | 268 |
Actions in the Absence of Decision | 276 |
Presidential Control | 279 |
Presidential Strategies To Gain Compliance | 280 |
Degrees of Control | 289 |
Back to ABM Some Tentative Answers | 297 |
Something for Everyone | 302 |
Pressures for Expansion | 304 |
Decisions and Change | 306 |
A Complicated Reality | 311 |
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