Defining the National Interest

Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy

By: Peter Trubowitz

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Paperback | 17 February 1998 | Edition Number 1

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The United States has been marked by a highly politicized and divisive history of foreign policy-making. Why do the nation's leaders find it so difficult to define the national interest?

Peter Trubowitz offers a new and compelling conception of American foreign policy and the domestic geopolitical forces that shape and animate it. Foreign policy conflict, he argues, is grounded in America's regional diversity. The uneven nature of America's integration into the world economy has made regionalism a potent force shaping fights over the national interest. As Trubowitz shows, politicians from different parts of the country have consistently sought to equate their region's interests with that of the nation. Domestic conflict over how to define the "national interest" is the result. Challenging dominant accounts of American foreign policy-making, Defining the National Interest exemplifies how interdisciplinary scholarship can yield a deeper understanding of the connections between domestic and international change in an era of globalization.

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government International Relations Political Structure & Processes Miscellaneous Items

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Regional Conflict and Coalitions in the Making of American Foreign Policy	p. 1
Sectional Conflict and the Great Debates of the 1890s	p. 31
North-South Alliance and the Triumph of Internationalism in the 1930s	p. 96
The Rise of the Sunbelt: America Resurgent in the 1980s	p. 169
Geopolitics and Foreign Policy	p. 235
Notes	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 333
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