Who speaks for America?: why democracy matters in foreign policy
Journalist and historian Eric Alterman argues that the vast majority of Americans have virtually no voice in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. With policymakers answerable only to a small coterie of self-appointed experts, corporate lobbyists, self-interested parties, and the elite media, the U.S....
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| Zusammenfassung: | Journalist and historian Eric Alterman argues that the vast majority of Americans have virtually no voice in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. With policymakers answerable only to a small coterie of self-appointed experts, corporate lobbyists, self-interested parties, and the elite media, the U.S. foreign policy operates not as the instrument of a democracy, but of a "pseudo-democracy": a political system with the trappings of democratic checks and balances but with little of their content. This failure of American democracy is all the more troubling, Alterman charges, now that the Cold War is over and the era of global capital has replaced it. Americans' stake in so-called foreign policy issues from trade to global warming is greater than ever. Yet the current system serves to mute their voices and ignore their concerns. Alterman concludes with a series of challenging proposals for reforms designed to create a truly democratic U.S. foreign policy. |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 244 S. |
| ISBN: | 0801435749 |
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| adam_text | WHO SPEAKS FOR. . * AMERICA? WHY DEMOCRACY MANERS IN FOREIGN POLICY ERIC
ALTERMAN CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX INTRODUCTION: FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE FEW 1 SECTION I
THE RISE AND FALL OF A LIBERAL REPUBLIC: A SHORT HISTORY 21 1. VIRTUE,
COMMERCE, AND PERPETUAL MOTION 23 2. SLOUCHING TOWARD ROME 5 2 3.
PRESENT DANGERS 77 SECTION II THE ANATOMY OF PSEUDODEMOCRACY 99 4. THE
NEW WORLD ORDER: TRADING AWAY DEMOCRACY 101 5. THRIVING ON CHAOS:
FOREIGN POLICYMAKING AND SPECIAL-INTEREST MANIPULATION 125 VLL 6. THE
MEDIA CACOPHONY: AIN T NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS 152 CONCLUSION
REVIVING THE LIBERAL REPUBLIC: AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL 168 APPENDIX A
DEMOCRATIC FOREIGN POLICY TODAY 181 NOTES 191 INDEX 231 VIII CONTENTS
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