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A. Leroy Bennett, age 90, professor emeritus of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware, died from complications of pneumonia November 9, 2004. Lee taught at the University of Delaware from 1962 until his retirement in 1991 and continued his research and publication activity to the very end of his life, publishing the seventh edition of his widely used International Organizations: Principles and Issues in 2002.

Post‐Cold War US foreign policy and policy making cannot escape constitutionally defined and political constraints of the past: divided government and Vietnam. In an era when "vital interests" are no longer self‐evident, "foreign" and "domestic" issue areas are interpenetrated and the presidential foreign policy establishment is, like the Congress, subject to a much broader range of domestic political pressures. Though a pragmatic internationalism survives, a system designed to deliberate and depart incrementally from the status quo requires leadership and, as during the Cold War, the locus of foreign policy leadership is the presidency.

View that foreign policy making cannot escape constitutionally defined and political constraints of the past, including divided government and the "Vietnam syndrome"; US. The end of bipartisanship, bureaucratic politics, presidential leadership, and public opinion.

The "Expansion of Force." Among the more important of the new complexities confronting both analysis and policy are those surrounding the use of force. For almost 300 years prior to the end of World War II, the pursuit of "security" by nation-states has been the central dynamic of international politics, The correlative of this condition has been an expansion of the capacity of the nation-state to deploy and use military power. During the last 150 years of this "expansionist phase"1 of the role of military power in international politics an important paradox emerged: the use of military power could result in enormous disorder but, under certain circumstances, order as well.

Much attention has been given to the role of seapower and naval forces in the conduct of war. The Navy's combat capability is obvious and its rationale is increasingly discussed in terms both of the deterrence of conflict and of the political uses of seapower.