Description: Part I: Introduction and Overview. 1. Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy: The United States and the Persian Gulf War, 1990-91. 2. Themes in U.S. Foreign Policy: Continuity and Evolution. 3. A New World Disorder: Into the Twenty-First Century. Part II: Who Makes U.S. Foreign Policy and Why it Often Goes Wrong. 4. The Actors Who Make U.S. Foreign Policy and Their Relative Influences. 5. Models and Problems of Policy Decision Making. 6. Who Makes Policy and Where? 7. Feedback: Evaluating and Correcting Policy. Part III: Tools of Policy. 8. Power and Influence: A Multifaceted Interpretation of Traditional Political Concepts. 9. Security, Security Dilemmas, and Military Instruments of Policy. 10. Diplomacy and Negotiation. 11. International Political Economy and Economic Policy Tools. 12. International Collective Action in U.S. Foreign Policy. Part IV: Increasingly Interesting Times: Problems and Prospects. 13. Development and the Global Context of U.S. Foreign Policy. 14. First Tier and Near First Tier: The Developed and Nearly Developed World. 15. Second Tier: The Developing World. 16. Cross-Tier Issues. Appendix: Abbreviations and Acronyms. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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