After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World

In the political landscape emerging from the end of the Cold War, making U.S. foreign policy has become more difficult, due in part to less clarity and consensus about threats and interests. In After the End James M. Scott brings together a group of scholars to explore the changing international situation since 1991 and to examine the characteristics and patterns of policy making that are emerging in response to a post-Cold War world.These essays examine the recent efforts of U.S. policymakers to recast the roles, interests, and purposes of the United States both at home and abroad in a political environment where policy making has become increasingly decentralized and democratized. The contributors suggest that foreign policy leadership has shifted from White House and executive branch dominance to an expanded group of actors that includes the president, Congress, the foreign policy bureaucracy, interest groups, the media, and the public. The volume includes case studies that focus on China, Russia, Bosnia, Somalia, democracy promotion, foreign aid, and NAFTA. Together, these chapters describe how policy making after 1991 compares to that of other periods and suggest how foreign policy will develop in the future.This collection provides a broad, balanced evaluation of U.S. foreign policy making in the post-Cold War setting for scholars, teachers, and students of U.S. foreign policy, political science, history, and international studies.Contributors. Ralph G. Carter, Richard Clark, A. Lane Crothers, I. M. Destler, Ole R. Holsti, Steven W. Hook, Christopher M. Jones, James M. McCormick, Jerel Rosati, Jeremy Rosner, John T. Rourke, Renee G. Scherlen, Peter J. Schraeder, James M. Scott, Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Rick Travis, Stephen Twing

Considers setting and place as irreducible features of the human condition and sociocultural existence. Focusing on a range of periods in places from France to the Balkans and from Siberia to San Diego, this work concentrates on such subjects as the Lockean landscapes, 19th-century Australian and North American landscape paintings, and zoos.

List of Tables and Figures ixPreface xi1. Out of the Cold: The Post-Cold War Context of U.S. Foreign Policy / James M. Scott and A. Lane Crothers 1I. Actors and Influence2. The Presidency and U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War / Jerel Rosati and Stephen Twing 293. The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy in a New Era / Christopher M. Jones 574. Foreign Economic Policy Making Under Bill Clinton / I. M. Destler 895. Congress and Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy / Ralph G. Carter 1086. Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War / Ole Holsti 1387. Interest Groups and the Media in Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy / James M. McCormick 170II. Cases8. Making U.S. Foreign Policy toward China in the Clinton Administration / John T. Rourke and Richard Clark 2019. American Assistance to the Former Soviet States in 1993–1994 / Jeremy D. Rosner 22510. The Promotion of Democracy at the End of the Twentieth Century: A New Polestar for American Foreign Policy? / Rick Travis 25111. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Assertive Multilateralism and Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Making / Jennifer Sterling-Folker 27712. The White House, Congress, and the Paralysis of the U.S. State Department after the Cold War / Steven W. Hook 30513. From Ally to Orphan: Understanding U.S. Policy toward Somalia after the Cold War / Peter J. Schraeder 33014. NAFTA and Beyond: The Politics of Trade in the Post-Cold War Period / Renee G. Scherlen 358III. After the End15. Interbranch Policy Making after the End / James M. Scott 389Notes on Contributors 409Index 411