{"product_id":"us-foreign-policy-in-perspective","title":"U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is the long-term nature of American foreign policy? This new book refutes the claim that it has varied considerably across time and space  arguing that key policies have been remarkably stable over the last hundred years  not in terms of ends but of means. Closely examining US foreign policy  past and present  David Sylvan and Stephen Majeski draw on a wealth of historical and contemporary cases to show how the US has had a client state empire for at least a century. They clearly illustrate how much of American policy revolves around acquiring clients  maintaining clients and engaging in hostile policies against enemies deemed to threaten them  representing a peculiarly American form of imperialism. They also reveal how clientilism informs apparently disparate activities in different geographical regions and operates via a specific range of policy instruments  showing predictable variation in the use of these instruments. With a broad range of cases from US policy in the Caribbean and Central America after the Spanish-American War  to the origins of the Marshall Plan and NATO  to economic bailouts and covert operations  and to military interventions in South Vietnam  Kosovo and Iraq  this important book will be of great interest to students and researchers of US foreign policy  security studies  history and international relations. This book has a dedicated website at: www.us-foreign-policy-prespective.org featuring additional case studies and data sets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964330209333,"sku":"ByrdShop_041570135X","price":34.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780415701358.jpg?v=1770457413","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/us-foreign-policy-in-perspective","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}