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Auteur(s) : Boucher, Vincent (1989-....)
David, Charles-Philippe (1957-....)
Prémont, Karine (1973-....)
Titre(s) : National security entrepreneurs and the making of American foreign policy [Texte imprimé] / Vincent Boucher, Charles-Philippe David, and Karine Prémont ; with the collaboration of Florence Darveau Routhier
Publication : Montreal : McGill-Queen's university press, DL 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-480 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 407-461. Index
"Since the advent of the contemporary US national security apparatus in 1947, entrepreneurial
public officials have tried to reorient the course of the nation's foreign policy.
Acting inside the National Security Council system, some principals and high-ranking
officials have worked tirelessly to generate policy change and innovation on the issues
they care about. These entrepreneurs attempt to set the foreign policy agenda, frame
policy problems and solutions, and orient the decision-making process to convince
the president and other decision makers to choose the course they advocate. In National
Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy, Vincent Boucher,
Charles-Philippe David, and Karine Prémont develop a new concept to study entrepreneurial
behaviour among foreign policy advisers and offer the first comprehensive framework
of analysis to answer this crucial question: why do some entrepreneurs succeed in
guaranteeing the adoption of novel policies while others fail? They explore case studies
of attempts to reorient US foreign policy waged by National Security Council entrepreneurs,
examining the key factors enabling success and the main forces preventing the adoption
of a preferred option: the entrepreneur's profile, presidential leadership, major
players involved in the policy formulation and decision-making processes, the national
political context, and the presence or absence of significant opportunities. By carefully
analyzing significant diplomatic and military decisions of the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan,
and Clinton administrations, and offering a preliminary account of contemporary national
security entrepreneurship under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald
Trump, this book makes the case for an agent-based explanation of foreign policy change
and continuity."
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Darveau Routhier, Florence. Collaborateur
Sujet(s) : Conseillers politiques -- États-Unis
Décision politique -- États-Unis
Relations extérieures -- États-Unis -- 1945-1989
Relations extérieures -- États-Unis -- 1989-....
États-Unis. National security council
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0228003342. - ISBN 9780228003342. - ISBN 0228003350. - ISBN 9780228003359. -
ISBN 9780228004288 (erroné). - ISBN 9780228004271 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46932822g
Notice n° :
FRBNF46932822
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : NSC Entrepreneurship: A Framework of Analysis ; Against the Americanization of the
Vietnam War: George W. Ball's Battle for LBJ's Heart and Mind, 1964-65 ; An Offbeat
Entrepreneur: Gerard C. Smith and the SALT Negotiations, 1969-72 ; An Ill-Fated Success:
Robert McFarlane and the "Iranian Initiative," 1981-85 ; The Beginning of the Endgame:
Anthony Lake and the Reorientation of Clinton's Bosnia Policy, 1994-95 ; The Successors:
Entrepreneurship in the Era of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald J. Trump.
