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Intro -- U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES -- U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 FOREIGN OREIGN AID REFORM , NATIONAL STRATEGY , AND THE QUADRENNIAL REVIEW -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- INTEREST IN ELEVATING DIPLOMACY AND DEVELOPMENT -- Issues and Actions during the George W. Bush Administration -- Issues and Actions during the Obama Administration -- NATIONAL STRATEGY -- LEGISLATION ON FOREIGN AID REFORM -- THE QUADRENNIAL REVIEW -- Congressional Action -- Executive Branch Action -- QDDR Structure -- Timing of Report -- Initial Concerns -- THE PRESIDENTIAL STUDY DIRECTIVE ON U.S. GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY -- CONCLUSION -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 FOREIGN OREIGN AID : INTERNATIONAL DONOR COORDINATION DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE -- WHY COORDINATE? -- INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR DONOR COORDINATION -- Rome High Level Forum on Donor Harmonization -- Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness -- Accra Agenda for Action -- IMPLEMENTING DONOR COORDINATION -- Global Mechanisms -- Use of Multilateral Organizations -- Joint Assistance Strategies -- Data Sharing -- EXAMPLE: SECTOR BASED COORDINATION-HIV/AIDS -- U.S.-Specific Mechanisms for Donor Coordination -- USAID Guidance -- USAID Coordination Officers -- MCC and OGAC -- COORDINATION CHALLENGES -- Division of Labor -- Concerns about Direct Budget Support and Funding Pools -- Agency and Personnel Incentives -- Lack of Inter-agency Coordination -- Coordination Costs -- Conflicting Strategic Interests -- Working with Private and Emerging Donors -- APPENDIX. ODA DONORS AND PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS THAT PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- End Notes -- Chapter 3 AFRICA: U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ISSUES -- SUMMARY -- U.S. AID TO AFRICA: AN OVERVIEW -- BACKGROUND -- U.S. Assistance Programs

Research in international relations has identified a variety of actors who appear to influence U.S. foreign policy, including experts and "epistemic communities," organized interests (especially business and labor), and ordinary citizens or "public opinion." This research, however, has often focused on a single factor at a time, rather than systematically testing the relative importance of alternative possible influences. Using extensive survey data gathered over three decades we conduct a comparative test, attempting to account for the expressed foreign policy preferences of policy makers by means of the preferences of the general public and those of several distinct sets of elites. The results of cross-sectional and time-lagged analyses suggest that U.S. foreign policy is most heavily and consistently influenced by internationally oriented business leaders, followed by experts (who, however, may themselves be influenced by business). Labor appears to have significant but smaller impacts. The general public seems to have considerably less effect, except under particular conditions. These results generally hold over several different analytical models (including two-observation time series) and different clusters of issues (economic, military, and diplomatic), with some variations across different institutional settings (the U.S. House, Senate, and executive branch).

Problems of US human rights policy and opportunities for political aid abroad; 4 articles.

This new edition of Michael H. Hunt's classic reinterpretation of American diplomatic history includes a preface that reflects on the personal experience and intellectual agenda behind the writing of the book, surveys the broad impact of the book's argument, and addresses the challenges to the thesis since the book's original publication. In the wake of 9/11 this interpretation is more pertinent than ever.Praise for the previous edition:"Clearly written and historically sound. . . . A subtle critique and analysis."-Gaddis Smith, Foreign Affairs"A lean, plain-spoken treatment of a grand subject. . . . A bold piece of criticism and advocacy. . . . The right focus of the argument may insure its survival as one of the basic postwar critiques of U.S. policy."-John W. Dower, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists"A work of intellectual vigor and daring, impressive in its scholarship and imaginative in its use of material."-Ronald Steel, Reviews in American History"A masterpiece of historical compression."-Wilson Quarterly"A penetrating and provocative study. . . . A pleasure both to read and to contemplate."-John Martz, Journal of Politics