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American Foreign Policy

Past, Present, and Future, Thirteenth Edition

Glenn P. Hastedt

World affairs are constantly in flux, so students need to be prepared not just to know what’s happening in the headlines but how to make sense of those events. Hastedt’s American Foreign Policy helps students develop the critical thinking skills needed to participate in debates about foreign relations—today and throughout their lives. Rather than focus on normative questions about what direction the country should take on the world stage, this text is designed to provide the historical and institutional context for the foreign policy process, from the governmental and civil society actors involved to the issues that comprise the conduct and content of American foreign policy.

This thirteenth edition comes at a time when Biden’s presidency is facing some of the most important foreign policy questions in a generation, from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to what we should do about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These issues have emerged as many of the traditional foundations in American foreign policy have been disrupted during the Trump administration, pleasing some and angering others but almost uniformly raising political tensions at home and abroad. The revision includes up-to-date coverage of the war in Ukraine, the US exit from Afghanistan, health diplomacy and the response to COVID, the resurgence of great power politics, and other features of the Biden administration’s foreign policy.

This fully revised thirteenth edition features:

• Updated coverage on the Biden presidency, including the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, health diplomacy, and the resurgence of great-power politics

• NEW! Learning Objectives to frame the expected student outcomes for each chapter

• Updated On the Agenda (formerly “Dateline”) features that open each chapter to set the stage and tie a current policy issue to the chapter content

• Expanded Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each chapter to engage students in higher-order thinking beyond rote memorization

• An expanded art program, including additional tables to engage diverse learning styles

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 384 • Trim: 7½ x 9
978-1-5381-7375-6 • Paperback • February 2023 • $83.00 • (£64.00)
978-1-5381-7376-3 • eBook • February 2023 • $75.00 • (£58.00)
Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Military Policy, Political Science / American Foreign Policy, Political Science / International Relations / General
Courses: Political Science; International Relations; Foreign Policy; American

Glenn P. Hastedt is professor emeritus at James Madison University where he was chair of the Justice Studies Department and prior to that chair of the Political Science Department. He is co-author of Introduction to International Politics: Global Challenges and Policy Responses. He has been teaching American foreign policy and international relations for over thirty years.

Preface

1. DEFINING AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY PROBLEMS

On the Agenda: Leaving Afghanistan

Thinking about Foreign Policy Problems

Choices

What Do Americans Want in Foreign Policy?

The National Interest

Costs

Building Consensus

Selecting a Policy Instrument

Hard Power and Soft Power

Unilateral or Multilateral Action

Historical Lesson: Into Afghanistan

Presidential Foreign Policy Doctrines

The Truman Doctrine

The Nixon Doctrine

The Carter Doctrine

The Reagan Doctrine

The Bush Doctrine

In Search of the Trump Doctrine

Is There a Trump Foreign Policy Legacy?

Assessing Foreign Policy Results

Intellectual Coherence

The Dominance of Domestic Politics

Consistency of Application

Over the Horizon: The Future of Grand Strategy

2. THE GLOBAL CONTEXT

On the Agenda: The Ukraine War

Thinking about the World

Realism

Neoliberalism

Constructivism

International System: Structural Constants

Decentralization

Self-Help System

A Stratified System

International System: Evolutionary Trends

Diffusion of Power

Issue Proliferation

Actor Proliferation

Historical Lesson: NATO

Regional Diversity

Dominant Features Today

Terrorism

Globalization

American Hegemony

America and the World: Attitudes and Perceptions

Over the Horizon: 2040

3. THE AMERICAN NATIONAL STYLE

On the Agenda: The Mexican Border

The Importance of Ideas

Isolationism versus Internationalism

Historical Sources of the American National Style

Patterns

Unilateralism

Moral Pragmatism

Legalism

Consequences of the American National Style

Historical Lesson: The Bracero Program

Voices from the Past

Over the Horizon: A Millennial Foreign Policy?

4. LEARNING FROM THE PAST

On the Agenda: Covid-19

How Do Policy Makers Learn from the Past?

Events From Which Policy Makers Learn

Types of Calculations Made

Lessons Learned

Historical Lesson: Ebola

Case Studies

The Vietnam War

The Iraq War

Over the Horizon: Searching for Lessons from Afghanistan

5. SOCIETY

On the Agenda: Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Public Awareness of Foreign Policy Issues

Public Opinion

Trends and Content

Public Opinion and the Use of Force

Impact of Public Opinion

Elections

Voting and Foreign Policy

Impact of Elections

Interest Groups

Historical Lesson: America First Committee, 1940

Types of Interest Groups

Impact of Interest Groups

Political Protest

The Media and American Foreign Policy

Newspapers and Television

The New Media and American Foreign Policy

Shaping the Public’s View

States and Cities: The New Foreign Policy Battleground

Policy Makers’ Responses

Over the Horizon: An Intelligence-Industrial Complex?

6. CONGRESS

On the Agenda: Aid for Ukraine

Constitutional Powers

Treaty-Making Power

Appointment Powers

War Powers

Historical Lesson: War Powers Act

Commerce Powers

Congressional Structure and Foreign Policy

Blunt Foreign Policy Tools

The Absence of a Single Voice

Policy Entrepreneurship

Staff Aides

Influence of Party and Region

Outsourcing Foreign Policy

Congress and the President: The Changing Relationship

Over the Horizon: A New War Powers Act?

7. PRESIDENCY

On the Agenda: Biden’s First 100 Days

Historical Lesson: John F. Kennedy’s First 100 Days

Weak President or Strong President

Presidential Power and Supreme Court Decisions

The President and the Foreign Affairs Constitution

Executive Agreements

Signing Statements

Executive Orders, Spending, and Administrative Powers

Informal Ambassadors

Undeclared Wars

When Does the President Matter?

Presidential Personality

Presidential Managerial Style

The National Security Council

Other White House Voices

The Vice President

The U.S. Trade Representative

The White House Chief of Staff

The First Lady

Over the Horizon: Improving Presidential Transitions

8. BUREAUCRACY

On the Agenda: Fixing the State Department

Presidents and the Bureaucracy

The State Department

Structure and Growth of the State Department

The State Department’s Value System

Impact of the State Department on Foreign Policy

The Department of Defense

Structure and Growth of the Department of Defense

Historical Lesson: Integrating the Military

The Value System of the Department of Defense

Impact of the Defense Department on Foreign Policy

The CIA and the Intelligence Community

Structure and Growth of the CIA and the Intelligence Community

The Intelligence Community’s Value System

Impact of the CIA and the Intelligence Community on Foreign Policy

The Domestic Bureaucracies

Treasury, Commerce, and Agriculture

Homeland Security

Policy Makers’ Response to Bureaucracy

Over the Horizon: U.S. Space Command

9. POLICY-MAKING MODELS

On the Agenda: Ukraine War Decision Making

Foreign Policy Decisions and Models

The Rational Actor Model

The Bureaucratic Politics Model

The Small-Group Decision-Making Model

Elite Theory and Pluralism

Historical Lesson: The War to End All Wars

Integrating Models

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Crisis: An Overview

Applying the Rational Actor Model to the Crisis

Applying the Bureaucratic Politics Model to the Crisis

Applying the Small-Group Decision-Making Model to the Crisis

Models: A Policy Maker Critique

Over the Horizon: Individual-Centered Models

10. DIPLOMACY

On the Agenda: The Paris Agreement

Diplomacy: Choices and Dilemmas

The Diplomatic Tool Kit

Bilateralism versus Multilateralism

Process versus Product

Incentives versus Sanctions

Bilateral Diplomacy: Allies, Friends, Adversaries

Shuttle Diplomacy

Summit Diplomacy

Economic Summits

East-West Superpower Summits

Conference Diplomacy

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Historical Lesson: The Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord

Environmental Conferences

Human Rights Conferences

Global Heath Conferences

UN Diplomacy

Public Diplomacy and Digital Diplomacy

The Political Use of Force

Coercive Diplomacy

Nuclear Diplomacy

Arms Transfers

Over the Horizon: Coalitions of the Willing

11. ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS

On the Agenda: United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

Economic Statecraft

Inventory of Options

Strategic Outlooks

Free Trade

Strategic Trade

Monetary Strategies

Varieties of Trade Agreements

Bilateral Trade Agreements

Regional Trade Agreements

Global Trade Agreements

The China Trade War

Economic Sanctions

Using Sanctions

Sanctions in Action: Iran, Cuba, Russia

Foreign Aid

Types of Foreign Aid

Cold War Foreign Aid

Post–Cold War Foreign Aid

Historical Lesson: NAFTA

Post–9/11 Foreign Aid

Contemporary Foreign Aid

Over the Horizon: How Trade Wars End

12. MILITARY INSTRUMENTS: BIG WARS

On the Agenda: North Korean Denuclearization

Cold War Nuclear Thinking

The U.S. Cold War Strategic Arsenal

U.S. Cold War Nuclear Strategy

Historical Lesson: The Baruch Plan

Post–Cold War Nuclear Thinking

The U.S. Post–Cold War Strategic Nuclear Arsenal

U.S. Post–Cold War Nuclear Strategy: Content

Bridging the Nuclear-Conventional Divide

Deterrence

Preemption

Using Large-Scale Conventional Military Force

Reducing the Danger of War: Arms Control and Disarmament

The Cold War Record

The Post–Cold War Record

Defense

The Strategic Defense Initiative

National Missile Defense Systems

Over the Horizon: A New Age of Nuclear Proliferation

13. MILITARY INSTRUMENTS: SMALL WARS

On the Agenda: Cyber Warfare

Separating Big Wars from Small Wars

Exiting Small Wars

Types of Small Wars

Hybrid Warfare

Counterinsurgency

Counterterrorism

The Return of Small Wars?

Small Wars by Other Means

Cold War Covert Action

Post–Cold War Covert Action

The Covert War against Osama bin Laden

Cyber Warfare

Small Wars for Peace

Humanitarian/Peacekeeping Operations

Historical Lesson: The Path to Mogadishu

Stability Operations

Conventional, Cyberspace, and WMD Arms Control

Chemical and Biological Weapons

Recovering Loose WMD Material

Cyberspace

Conventional Weapons

Counterproliferation

Over the Horizon: Drone Wars

14. ALTERNATIVE FUTURES

On the Agenda: The South China Sea

Foreign Policy Visions

The United States as an Ordinary State

Reformed America

Pragmatic America

American Crusader

America the Balancer

Disengaged America

Historical Lesson: The First Asian Pivot: Commodore Perry’s Opening of Japan

Over the Horizon: A New Cold War?

Glossary

Notes

About the Author

Index

Hastedt allows teachers to cover a wide range of key topics and makes it easy for first-time students to gain basic and applied knowledge about how policy is made. A must-have for an introductory course in US foreign policy.


— Nori Katagiri, Saint Louis University


In light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this edition explains well the role and the process the United States plays in preserving Post World War II international order.


— Edin Mujkic, University of Colorado Colorado Springs


Glenn Hastedt offers a practical overview of history, theories, and institutions that shape U.S. foreign policy. Excerpt vignettes throughout the chapters add historical accounts that support the reading. The book’s final chapters are dedicated to the output of foreign policy decisions providing readable analysis of complex foreign policy problems. This book will prove valuable to students of foreign policy.


— James R. Masterson, Morehead State University


This fully revised thirteenth edition features:

•
Updated coverage on the Biden presidency, including the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, health diplomacy, and the resurgence of great-power politics

• NEW! Learning Objectives to frame the expected student outcomes for each chapter

• Updated On the Agenda (formerly “Dateline”) features that open each chapter to set the stage and tie a current policy issue to the chapter content

• Expanded Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each chapter to engage students in higher-order thinking beyond rote memorization

• An expanded art program, including additional tables to engage diverse learning styles



FOR PROFESSORS
Ancillary Materials are available for this title. For access to these professor use only materials, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com
Instructor's Manual. For each chapter, this valuable resource provides a variety of tools such as lecture outlines, student learning objectives, discussion questions, and other resources to simplify classroom preparation.
Test Bank. The Test Bank includes a variety of test questions and is available in either Word or PDF formats. For every chapter in the text, the Test Bank includes a complete test with a variety of question types, including multiple choice, true false, and essay formats.
To use our Test Bank in Word or PDF, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com

American Foreign Policy

Past, Present, and Future, Thirteenth Edition

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Summary
Summary
  • World affairs are constantly in flux, so students need to be prepared not just to know what’s happening in the headlines but how to make sense of those events. Hastedt’s American Foreign Policy helps students develop the critical thinking skills needed to participate in debates about foreign relations—today and throughout their lives. Rather than focus on normative questions about what direction the country should take on the world stage, this text is designed to provide the historical and institutional context for the foreign policy process, from the governmental and civil society actors involved to the issues that comprise the conduct and content of American foreign policy.

    This thirteenth edition comes at a time when Biden’s presidency is facing some of the most important foreign policy questions in a generation, from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to what we should do about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These issues have emerged as many of the traditional foundations in American foreign policy have been disrupted during the Trump administration, pleasing some and angering others but almost uniformly raising political tensions at home and abroad. The revision includes up-to-date coverage of the war in Ukraine, the US exit from Afghanistan, health diplomacy and the response to COVID, the resurgence of great power politics, and other features of the Biden administration’s foreign policy.

    This fully revised thirteenth edition features:

    • Updated coverage on the Biden presidency, including the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, health diplomacy, and the resurgence of great-power politics

    • NEW! Learning Objectives to frame the expected student outcomes for each chapter

    • Updated On the Agenda (formerly “Dateline”) features that open each chapter to set the stage and tie a current policy issue to the chapter content

    • Expanded Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each chapter to engage students in higher-order thinking beyond rote memorization

    • An expanded art program, including additional tables to engage diverse learning styles

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 384 • Trim: 7½ x 9
    978-1-5381-7375-6 • Paperback • February 2023 • $83.00 • (£64.00)
    978-1-5381-7376-3 • eBook • February 2023 • $75.00 • (£58.00)
    Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Military Policy, Political Science / American Foreign Policy, Political Science / International Relations / General
    Courses: Political Science; International Relations; Foreign Policy; American
Author
Author
  • Glenn P. Hastedt is professor emeritus at James Madison University where he was chair of the Justice Studies Department and prior to that chair of the Political Science Department. He is co-author of Introduction to International Politics: Global Challenges and Policy Responses. He has been teaching American foreign policy and international relations for over thirty years.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Preface

    1. DEFINING AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY PROBLEMS

    On the Agenda: Leaving Afghanistan

    Thinking about Foreign Policy Problems

    Choices

    What Do Americans Want in Foreign Policy?

    The National Interest

    Costs

    Building Consensus

    Selecting a Policy Instrument

    Hard Power and Soft Power

    Unilateral or Multilateral Action

    Historical Lesson: Into Afghanistan

    Presidential Foreign Policy Doctrines

    The Truman Doctrine

    The Nixon Doctrine

    The Carter Doctrine

    The Reagan Doctrine

    The Bush Doctrine

    In Search of the Trump Doctrine

    Is There a Trump Foreign Policy Legacy?

    Assessing Foreign Policy Results

    Intellectual Coherence

    The Dominance of Domestic Politics

    Consistency of Application

    Over the Horizon: The Future of Grand Strategy

    2. THE GLOBAL CONTEXT

    On the Agenda: The Ukraine War

    Thinking about the World

    Realism

    Neoliberalism

    Constructivism

    International System: Structural Constants

    Decentralization

    Self-Help System

    A Stratified System

    International System: Evolutionary Trends

    Diffusion of Power

    Issue Proliferation

    Actor Proliferation

    Historical Lesson: NATO

    Regional Diversity

    Dominant Features Today

    Terrorism

    Globalization

    American Hegemony

    America and the World: Attitudes and Perceptions

    Over the Horizon: 2040

    3. THE AMERICAN NATIONAL STYLE

    On the Agenda: The Mexican Border

    The Importance of Ideas

    Isolationism versus Internationalism

    Historical Sources of the American National Style

    Patterns

    Unilateralism

    Moral Pragmatism

    Legalism

    Consequences of the American National Style

    Historical Lesson: The Bracero Program

    Voices from the Past

    Over the Horizon: A Millennial Foreign Policy?

    4. LEARNING FROM THE PAST

    On the Agenda: Covid-19

    How Do Policy Makers Learn from the Past?

    Events From Which Policy Makers Learn

    Types of Calculations Made

    Lessons Learned

    Historical Lesson: Ebola

    Case Studies

    The Vietnam War

    The Iraq War

    Over the Horizon: Searching for Lessons from Afghanistan

    5. SOCIETY

    On the Agenda: Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

    Public Awareness of Foreign Policy Issues

    Public Opinion

    Trends and Content

    Public Opinion and the Use of Force

    Impact of Public Opinion

    Elections

    Voting and Foreign Policy

    Impact of Elections

    Interest Groups

    Historical Lesson: America First Committee, 1940

    Types of Interest Groups

    Impact of Interest Groups

    Political Protest

    The Media and American Foreign Policy

    Newspapers and Television

    The New Media and American Foreign Policy

    Shaping the Public’s View

    States and Cities: The New Foreign Policy Battleground

    Policy Makers’ Responses

    Over the Horizon: An Intelligence-Industrial Complex?

    6. CONGRESS

    On the Agenda: Aid for Ukraine

    Constitutional Powers

    Treaty-Making Power

    Appointment Powers

    War Powers

    Historical Lesson: War Powers Act

    Commerce Powers

    Congressional Structure and Foreign Policy

    Blunt Foreign Policy Tools

    The Absence of a Single Voice

    Policy Entrepreneurship

    Staff Aides

    Influence of Party and Region

    Outsourcing Foreign Policy

    Congress and the President: The Changing Relationship

    Over the Horizon: A New War Powers Act?

    7. PRESIDENCY

    On the Agenda: Biden’s First 100 Days

    Historical Lesson: John F. Kennedy’s First 100 Days

    Weak President or Strong President

    Presidential Power and Supreme Court Decisions

    The President and the Foreign Affairs Constitution

    Executive Agreements

    Signing Statements

    Executive Orders, Spending, and Administrative Powers

    Informal Ambassadors

    Undeclared Wars

    When Does the President Matter?

    Presidential Personality

    Presidential Managerial Style

    The National Security Council

    Other White House Voices

    The Vice President

    The U.S. Trade Representative

    The White House Chief of Staff

    The First Lady

    Over the Horizon: Improving Presidential Transitions

    8. BUREAUCRACY

    On the Agenda: Fixing the State Department

    Presidents and the Bureaucracy

    The State Department

    Structure and Growth of the State Department

    The State Department’s Value System

    Impact of the State Department on Foreign Policy

    The Department of Defense

    Structure and Growth of the Department of Defense

    Historical Lesson: Integrating the Military

    The Value System of the Department of Defense

    Impact of the Defense Department on Foreign Policy

    The CIA and the Intelligence Community

    Structure and Growth of the CIA and the Intelligence Community

    The Intelligence Community’s Value System

    Impact of the CIA and the Intelligence Community on Foreign Policy

    The Domestic Bureaucracies

    Treasury, Commerce, and Agriculture

    Homeland Security

    Policy Makers’ Response to Bureaucracy

    Over the Horizon: U.S. Space Command

    9. POLICY-MAKING MODELS

    On the Agenda: Ukraine War Decision Making

    Foreign Policy Decisions and Models

    The Rational Actor Model

    The Bureaucratic Politics Model

    The Small-Group Decision-Making Model

    Elite Theory and Pluralism

    Historical Lesson: The War to End All Wars

    Integrating Models

    The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Crisis: An Overview

    Applying the Rational Actor Model to the Crisis

    Applying the Bureaucratic Politics Model to the Crisis

    Applying the Small-Group Decision-Making Model to the Crisis

    Models: A Policy Maker Critique

    Over the Horizon: Individual-Centered Models

    10. DIPLOMACY

    On the Agenda: The Paris Agreement

    Diplomacy: Choices and Dilemmas

    The Diplomatic Tool Kit

    Bilateralism versus Multilateralism

    Process versus Product

    Incentives versus Sanctions

    Bilateral Diplomacy: Allies, Friends, Adversaries

    Shuttle Diplomacy

    Summit Diplomacy

    Economic Summits

    East-West Superpower Summits

    Conference Diplomacy

    The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO)

    Historical Lesson: The Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord

    Environmental Conferences

    Human Rights Conferences

    Global Heath Conferences

    UN Diplomacy

    Public Diplomacy and Digital Diplomacy

    The Political Use of Force

    Coercive Diplomacy

    Nuclear Diplomacy

    Arms Transfers

    Over the Horizon: Coalitions of the Willing

    11. ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS

    On the Agenda: United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

    Economic Statecraft

    Inventory of Options

    Strategic Outlooks

    Free Trade

    Strategic Trade

    Monetary Strategies

    Varieties of Trade Agreements

    Bilateral Trade Agreements

    Regional Trade Agreements

    Global Trade Agreements

    The China Trade War

    Economic Sanctions

    Using Sanctions

    Sanctions in Action: Iran, Cuba, Russia

    Foreign Aid

    Types of Foreign Aid

    Cold War Foreign Aid

    Post–Cold War Foreign Aid

    Historical Lesson: NAFTA

    Post–9/11 Foreign Aid

    Contemporary Foreign Aid

    Over the Horizon: How Trade Wars End

    12. MILITARY INSTRUMENTS: BIG WARS

    On the Agenda: North Korean Denuclearization

    Cold War Nuclear Thinking

    The U.S. Cold War Strategic Arsenal

    U.S. Cold War Nuclear Strategy

    Historical Lesson: The Baruch Plan

    Post–Cold War Nuclear Thinking

    The U.S. Post–Cold War Strategic Nuclear Arsenal

    U.S. Post–Cold War Nuclear Strategy: Content

    Bridging the Nuclear-Conventional Divide

    Deterrence

    Preemption

    Using Large-Scale Conventional Military Force

    Reducing the Danger of War: Arms Control and Disarmament

    The Cold War Record

    The Post–Cold War Record

    Defense

    The Strategic Defense Initiative

    National Missile Defense Systems

    Over the Horizon: A New Age of Nuclear Proliferation

    13. MILITARY INSTRUMENTS: SMALL WARS

    On the Agenda: Cyber Warfare

    Separating Big Wars from Small Wars

    Exiting Small Wars

    Types of Small Wars

    Hybrid Warfare

    Counterinsurgency

    Counterterrorism

    The Return of Small Wars?

    Small Wars by Other Means

    Cold War Covert Action

    Post–Cold War Covert Action

    The Covert War against Osama bin Laden

    Cyber Warfare

    Small Wars for Peace

    Humanitarian/Peacekeeping Operations

    Historical Lesson: The Path to Mogadishu

    Stability Operations

    Conventional, Cyberspace, and WMD Arms Control

    Chemical and Biological Weapons

    Recovering Loose WMD Material

    Cyberspace

    Conventional Weapons

    Counterproliferation

    Over the Horizon: Drone Wars

    14. ALTERNATIVE FUTURES

    On the Agenda: The South China Sea

    Foreign Policy Visions

    The United States as an Ordinary State

    Reformed America

    Pragmatic America

    American Crusader

    America the Balancer

    Disengaged America

    Historical Lesson: The First Asian Pivot: Commodore Perry’s Opening of Japan

    Over the Horizon: A New Cold War?

    Glossary

    Notes

    About the Author

    Index

Reviews
Reviews
  • Hastedt allows teachers to cover a wide range of key topics and makes it easy for first-time students to gain basic and applied knowledge about how policy is made. A must-have for an introductory course in US foreign policy.


    — Nori Katagiri, Saint Louis University


    In light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this edition explains well the role and the process the United States plays in preserving Post World War II international order.


    — Edin Mujkic, University of Colorado Colorado Springs


    Glenn Hastedt offers a practical overview of history, theories, and institutions that shape U.S. foreign policy. Excerpt vignettes throughout the chapters add historical accounts that support the reading. The book’s final chapters are dedicated to the output of foreign policy decisions providing readable analysis of complex foreign policy problems. This book will prove valuable to students of foreign policy.


    — James R. Masterson, Morehead State University


Features
Features
  • This fully revised thirteenth edition features:

    •
    Updated coverage on the Biden presidency, including the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, health diplomacy, and the resurgence of great-power politics

    • NEW! Learning Objectives to frame the expected student outcomes for each chapter

    • Updated On the Agenda (formerly “Dateline”) features that open each chapter to set the stage and tie a current policy issue to the chapter content

    • Expanded Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each chapter to engage students in higher-order thinking beyond rote memorization

    • An expanded art program, including additional tables to engage diverse learning styles



Resources
Resources
  • FOR PROFESSORS
    Ancillary Materials are available for this title. For access to these professor use only materials, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com
    Instructor's Manual. For each chapter, this valuable resource provides a variety of tools such as lecture outlines, student learning objectives, discussion questions, and other resources to simplify classroom preparation.
    Test Bank. The Test Bank includes a variety of test questions and is available in either Word or PDF formats. For every chapter in the text, the Test Bank includes a complete test with a variety of question types, including multiple choice, true false, and essay formats.
    To use our Test Bank in Word or PDF, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com

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