Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction-the case for the honest broker role
  • The foundation of honest brokerage: Truman's executive secretaries, Eisenhower's special assistants
  • The decline of honest brokerage: Bundy as NSC advisor
  • The costs of absent brokerage: Kissinger as NSC advisor
  • The benefits of balanced brokerage: Scowcroft as NSC advisor
  • Weak brokerage, insurgency, and recovery: the Reagan NSC advisors
  • The costs of failed brokerage: Rice as NSC advisor
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix A: Assistants to the president for national security affairs (NSC advisors)
  • Since 1953
  • Appendix B: The others: Rostow, Brzezinski, Lake, Berger, and Hadley
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.