National security entrepreneurs and the making of American foreign policy

National security entrepreneurs and the making of American foreign policy / Vincent Boucher, Charles-Philippe David, and Karine Prémont with the collaboration of Florence Darveau Routhier.

"Since the advent of the contemporary US national security apparatus in 1947, entrepreneurial public officials have tried to reorient the course of the nation's foreign policy. Acting inside the National Security Council system, some principals and high-ranking officials have worked tirele...

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Main Authors: Boucher, Vincent, 1989- (Author), David, Charles Philippe (Author), Prémont, Karine, 1973- (Author), Routhier, Florence Darveau (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
National Security Council (U.S.) > History > 20th century.
National Security Council (U.S.)
1900-1999
Political consultants > United States > History > 20th century.
Presidents > United States > Staff > History > 20th century.
Presidents > United States > Decision making > History > 20th century.
National security > United States > Decision making > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International).
Diplomatic relations
National security > Decision making
Political consultants
Politics and government
Presidents > Decision making
Presidents > Staff
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > Decision making > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
United States
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • NSC Entrepreneurship: A Framework of Analysis
  • Against the Americanization of the Vietnam War: George W. Ball's Battle for LBJ's Heart and Mind, 1964-65
  • An Offbeat Entrepreneur: Gerard C. Smith and the SALT Negotiations, 1969-72
  • An Ill-Fated Success: Robert McFarlane and the "Iranian Initiative," 1981-85
  • The Beginning of the Endgame: Anthony Lake and the Reorientation of Clinton's Bosnia Policy, 1994-95
  • The Successors: Entrepreneurship in the Era of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald J. Trump.

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