United States National Interests in a Changing World /
Although the term national interest has long been used in reference to the foreign policy goals of nations, there has been no generally agreed upon definition of the concept; as a result, Donald E. Nuechterlein contends, there has been a tendency for foreign policy to be determined by institutional...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Lexington] :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1973]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Although the term national interest has long been used in reference to the foreign policy goals of nations, there has been no generally agreed upon definition of the concept; as a result, Donald E. Nuechterlein contends, there has been a tendency for foreign policy to be determined by institutional prejudice and past policy rather than by a systematic assessment of national interests. By what criterion does a President decide that a given interest is or is not vital-that is, whether he must contemplate defending it by force if other measures fail?In this study Nuechterlein offers a new concep. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (216 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780813164106 |