Description
How is foreign policy in the United States really crafted? In America's Foreign Policy Toolkit, Charles A. Stevenson identifies what the key foreign policy tools are, which are best for which tasks, and what factors constrain or push how they're used, bringing fresh insight into the challenges facing national security decisionmakers. Engagingly written with examples drawn from "behind the scenes," Stevenson brings depth and dimension to the institutions and processes of foreign policy.
This brief text looks first at the historical context and then in turn at the tools available to the president and congress, and to the shared budgetary tools. The following section surveys each of the diplomatic, economic, military, intelligence, homeland security, and international institutions instruments. The book concludes by considering the limitations of the U.S. toolkit. Each chapter ends with a case study that connects the theory of the toolkit with the realities of decisionmaking.
Table of Contents
Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Preface
I. INTRODUCTION: TOOLS AND TOOL USERS
1. The Framer’s Design
2. Following the Blueprint
3. The President’s Toolkit
4. Congress’s Toolkit
5. Shared Tools of the Budgetary Process
II. USING THE TOOLS
6. The Diplomatic Instrument
7. The Economic Instruments
8. The Military Instrument
9. The Secret Intelligence Instruments
10. The Homeland Security Instruments
11. The International Institutions Instrument
III. CONSTRAINTS AND LIMITATIONS ON THE U.S. TOOLKIT
12. Elephants in the Workshop
13. Missing Tools
Notes
Index
