Setting a course: Congressional foreign policy entrepreneurs in post-World War II U.S. foreign policy

International Studies Perspectives

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 278-299

  Carter, Ralph G ^a   Scott, James M ^b   Rowling, Charles M ^c  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Congress; Entrepreneurs; Foreign policy

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; FOREIGN POLICY; GEOPOLITICS; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL HISTORY; POST-WAR; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4043094741     PISSN: 15283577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-3577.2004.00174.x     Document Type: Article

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