Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction: The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy     1
The Societal Environment     17
Soft Power and American Foreign Policy   Joseph S. Nye Jr.     29
Why Don't They Like Us? How America Has Become the Object of Much of the Planet's Genuine Grievances-and Displaced Discontent   Stanley Hoffmann     45
The Benefits of Goliath   Michael Mandelbaum     55
Intermestic Interests and U.S. Policy toward Cuba   Philip Brenner   Patrick J. Haney   Walter Vanderbush     65
The Israel Lobby   John Mearsheimer   Stephen Walt     81
American Veterans in Government and the Use of Force   Peter D. Feaver   Christopher Gelpi     97
The Iraq Syndrome   John Mueller     115
External Affairs and the Electoral Connection   Miroslav Nincic     125
The Institutional Setting     141
Person and Office: Presidents, the Presidency, and Foreign Policy   Michael Nelson     159
Costly Presidential Wars   Louis Fisher     169
How National Security Advisers See Their Role   Ivo H. Daalder   I. M. Destler     185
The Shifting Pendulumof Power: Executive-Legislative Relations on American Foreign Policy   James M. Lindsay     199
The Craft of Diplomacy   Colin Powell     213
The Struggle to Transform the Military   Max Boot     223
Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq   Paul R. Pillar     235
The Homeland Security Bureaucracy   Eli Lehrer     247
Triumph of Globalism: American Trade Politics   Orin Kirshner     259
Decision Makers and Their Policymaking Positions     277
How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy   James C. Thomson Jr.     291
Policy Preferences and Bureaucratic Position: The Case of the American Hostage Rescue Mission   Steve Smith     303
Roles, Politics, and the Survival of the V-22 Osprey   Christopher M. Jones     319
NATO Expansion: The Anatomy of a Decision   James M. Goldgeier     339
Sources of Humanitarian Intervention: Beliefs, Information, and Advocacy in U.S. Decisions on Somalia and Bosnia   Jon Western     355
Last Stand   Seymour M. Hersh     373
Assessing the Personality of George W. Bush   Stanley A. Renshon     385
Index     399
About the Editors and Contributors      419