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THE FOREIGN POLICY PRESIDENCY AFTER THE COLD WAR: NEW UNCERTAINTY AND OLD PROBLEMS
Author(s) -
Oliver James K.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1997.tb00786.x
Subject(s) - presidency , foreign policy , cold war , status quo , presidential system , political science , internationalism (politics) , political economy , politics , foreign relations , foreign policy analysis , public administration , law , economics
Post‐Cold War US foreign policy and policy making cannot escape constitutionally defined and political constraints of the past: divided government and Vietnam. In an era when “vital interests” are no longer self‐evident, “foreign” and “domestic” issue areas are interpenetrated and the presidential foreign policy establishment is, like the Congress, subject to a much broader range of domestic political pressures. Though a pragmatic internationalism survives, a system designed to deliberate and depart incrementally from the status quo requires leadership and, as during the Cold War, the locus of foreign policy leadership is the presidency.