Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign PolicyHarvard University Press, 2000 - 190 страница Who speaks for America in world affairs? In this insightful new book, Tony Smith finds that, often, the answer is interest groups, including ethnic ones. This seems natural in a country defined by ethnic and cultural diversity and a democratic political system. And yet, should not the nation's foreign policy be based on more general interests? On American national interests? |
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... mean that the concept itself — America as a community , an unum as well as a pluribus - can be seen as other than a vital part of the country's collective political discourse . Ethnic activists often seem to forget or obscure this unum ...
... means with respect to the formulation of American foreign policy remains fluid . To some , it means ending the overwhelming predominance of Euro Americans in decisionmaking in Washington . For others , it promises to bring distinctive ...
... mean they abdicate to fellow ethnics their rights to be involved in decisionmaking with regard to parts of the world staked out by these other constituencies ? One might argue that instead of narrow- ing their sights on Latin America ...
... mean Northern Europeans . But Irish Americans , though not affected by the quota of 1924 , could with justice maintain that they had been discriminated against earlier by Protestant America . Even German and Scandinavian Americans ...
... means to be an American , not just in terms of the hyphens showing our ethnic origins , but in terms of our primary allegiance to the values America stands for ? Trying to answer this question with respect to ethnic involvement in the ...
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