MINORITY GROUPS AND FOREIGN POLICY
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 161-175
ISSN: 0032-3195
The empirical & normative aspects of the long-range conse quences to US foreign policy of minority group pressures, & the effect which such influences have had on the US pol'al & soc systems, are explored & hypo's & arguments advanced for further investigation. The major over-all result of the mutual impact of foreign policy & minority group claims has been to thwart Anglo-US friendship, & other consequences have been the mitigation of econ class conflict, the elevation of congressional participation in foreign affairs & the loosening of party discipline. Judgment on the process depends to some extent on judgment of its consequences, & the results may be evaluated in terms of one's view of the Anglo-US alliance, of class conflict in the US, & of party responsibility & congressional participation in foreign affairs. The problem of justifying minority claims on behalf of other nations is the most crucial normative question at the core of any controversy over the interaction of foreign policy & minority group pressures, & the principal arguments on each side of the issue are set forth. IPSA.