The Turkey and the Eagle: The Struggle for America's Global Role - Softcover

Rossiter, Caleb Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875867987 ISBN 13: 9780875867984

Verlag: Algora Pub, 2010

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Reseña del editor:

This book is about not just the effects but the making of U.S. foreign policy. It shows how advocates of basing U.S. relations on progress toward democracy struggle in Washington with advocates of support for repressive regimes in return for economic benefits such trade, investment, and mineral resources and military benefits such as access to their territory for U.S. armed and covert forces. By arguing that the outcome of this struggle is determined by the average citizen's position, the book makes readers participants rather than observers. By arguing that a "cultural pump" constantly promotes a vision of American domination as a positive force in the world, it encourages readers to analyze the day-to-day effect of this vision on their own perceptions. Intended for a general audience, the book features enough inside tales and colorful characters to intrigue the casual reader, but also provides the clear themes and historical context needed for a high school or college text on U.S. policy after World War II toward the colonized, and then post-colonial countries.

Biografía del autor:

For 40 years Dr. Caleb Stewart Rossiter has been an advocate for a US policy of cooperation rather than domination toward formerly colonized countries. An activist against the Vietnam War in his teens, he earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University with a dissertation analyzing the decision-making process of the US foreign aid bureaucracy in Southern Africa during efforts to settle the civil war in Rhodesia. He moved to Washington, DC, in 1980 to work for the Center for International Policy, the congressional Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus, and Demilitarization for Democracy on such causes as ending US-backed wars in Central America, the anti-apartheid act, the "no arms for dictators" arms trade code of conduct, and the campaign to ban anti-personnel landmines. He has also been a professor at Cornell University and American University, teaching courses on African history and politics, US policy toward Africa, the US military budget, and the use of statistics in international affairs such as climate and economic modeling. From 2007 to 2009 he served as counselor to the chairman of a subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, where he was involved in planning and holding hearings, drafting and pursuing legislation, and writing reports and speeches on topics such as the impact on US interests of the decline in America’s reputation, US undergraduate scholarships for low-income foreign students, US relations with non-democratic countries in Africa, the US-Iraq security agreement, torture and extra-legal rendition, and congressional authority to approve combat. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of International Affairs at American University and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.

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• Verlag: Algora Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0875867987
• ISBN 13: 9780875867984
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336