The political support system for American primacy

International Affairs

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Betts, Richard K ^a  

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EID: 20844435295     PISSN: 00205850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2005.00435.x     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. John H. Aldrich, John L. Sullivan and Eugene Borgida, 'Foreign affairs and issue voting: do presidential candidates '"waltz before a blind audience"?', American Political Science Review 83: 1, March 1989.
2. For example, Walter Russell Mead's Special providence: American foreign policy and how it changed the world (New York: Knopf, 2001) presents an engaging characterization in terms of four traditions - Hamiltonian, Wilsonian, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian; but it proves difficult to lump very many individuals or groups wholly within any one of the four.
3. See William Schneider. 'Public opinion: the beginning of ideology?", Foreign Policy 17, Winter 1974-5.
4. Steven Kull and I. M. Destler, Misreading the public: the myth of a new isolationism (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999).
5. Quoted in David M. Halbfinger, 'Shedding populist tone, Kerry starts move to middle', New York Times, 8 May 2004, p. A14.
6. See Joseph S. Nye, Soft power (New York: Public Affairs, 2004).
7. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review (Washington DC: Department of Defense, May 1997). p. 9.
8. The only representative of the hawkish wing of the party appointed to a high foreign policy position by Clinton was James Woolsey, but this was a post supposed to be separated from policy decisions: Director of Central Intelligence. In any case, Woolsey soon became persona non grata in the White House and resigned after two years.
9. An anti-imperial analysis by someone with a foot in both professions, military and academic, is Andrew J. Bacevich, American empire: the realities and consequences of US diplomacy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).
10. For examples see the signatories of the manifesto 'War with Iraq is not in America's national interest', New York Times, 26 Sept. 2002, p. A29.
11. See Max Boot, 'Neocons', Foreign Policy, 140 (Jan.-Feb. 2004.).
12. Bob Woodward, The commanders (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 38, 42, 299-301.
13. Colin Powell with Joseph E. Persico, My American journey (New York: Random House, 1995), p. 576.
14. Richard K. Betts, Soldiers, statesmen, and Cold War crises, 2nd edn (New York; Columbia University Press, 1991); David Petraeus, 'The American military and the lessons of Vietnam: a study of military influence and the use of force in the post-Vietnam era', PhD dissertation, Princeton University, Oct. 1987.
15. Richard K. Betts, Soldiers, statesmen, and Cold War crises, 2nd edn (New York; Columbia University Press, 1991); David Petraeus, 'The American military and the lessons of Vietnam: a study of military influence and the use of force in the post-Vietnam era', PhD dissertation, Princeton University, Oct. 1987.
16. Peter D. Feaver and Christopher Gelpi, Choosing your battles: American civil-military relations and the use of force (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), chs 2-3; William T. Bianco and Jamie Markham, 'Vanishing veterans: the decline of military experience in Congress', in Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn, eds, Soldiers and civilians: the civil-military gap and American national security (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001).
17. Peter D. Feaver and Christopher Gelpi, Choosing your battles: American civil-military relations and the use of force (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), chs 2-3; William T. Bianco and Jamie Markham, 'Vanishing veterans: the decline of military experience in Congress', in Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn, eds, Soldiers and civilians: the civil-military gap and American national security (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001).