1st Edition

The US Public and American Foreign Policy

Edited By Andrew Johnstone, Helen Laville Copyright 2010
228 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Though often overlooked, public opinion has always played a significant role in the development and promotion of US foreign policy and this work seeks to comprehensively assess the impact and nature of that opinion through a collection of historical and contemporary essays. The volume evaluates the role of organizations and movements that look to represent public opinion, and assesses the... Read more

1. Introduction Andrew Johnstone and Helen Laville  Section One: The Public and War  2. From Coast Defence to Embalmed Beef: The Influence of the Press and Public Opinion on McKinley’s Policymaking during the Spanish-American War Joseph Smith  3.To Mobilize a Nation: Citizens Organizations and Intervention and on the Eve of WWII Andrew Johnstone  4. Power to the People? American Public Opinion and the Vietnam War Andrew Priest  Section Two: Public Interests and Ideology  5. Organized Labor and the Social Foundations of American Diplomacy, 1898-1920 Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones  6. Religion and World Order at the Dawn of the American Century Andrew Preston  7. Gender Apartheid? American Women and Women’s Rights in American Foreign Policy Helen Laville  Section Three: Interests and Ethnicity  8. African Americans and US Foreign Policy: The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa and the Rhodesian Crisis Carl P. Watts 9. The American Public and the US-Israeli "Special" Relationship Elizabeth Stephens  10. The Cuban Lobby and US Policy toward Cuba Jessica Gibbs  Section Four: The Public and the War on Terror  11. Neoconservatism and the American Public: Was 9/11 a Hegemonic Moment? Maria Ryan 12. "You Don’t Launch a Marketing Campaign in August": The Bush Administration and the Public Before and After the Iraq Invasion Scott Lucas

Biography

Andrew Johnstone is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Dilemmas of Internationalism, and his research focuses on US internationalism, and the relationship between the state and private spheres in mobilising support for US foreign policy.

Helen Laville is a senior lecturer in American History at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely on women's rights in the Cold War Years, including the monograph Cold War Women (2002). She is currently writing a book on American women in the Civil Rights movement.