Includes index and glossary

Contents : Defining American foreign policy problems -- The Global context -- The American national style -- Learning from the past -- Society -- Congress -- Presidency -- Bureaucracy -- Policy-making models -- Diplomacy -- Economic instruments -- Military instruments : big wars -- Military instruments: small wars -- Alternative futures

"Hastedt introduces students to America's changing role in the world and provides them with the critical thinking skills needed to participate in the debate about the conduct and content of American foreign policy. His approach is guided by four key questions: 1) what do we mean by foreign policy and what is the national interest? 2) How did we get here and how do we learn from the past? 3) How is foreign policy made? And 4) what's next?"-- Provided by publisher.