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• catalog abstract "In Reversing Course, David Skidmore argues that President Carter's initial foreign policy agenda sought to scale back U.S. commitment's abroad, reflecting a decline in resources, as well as influence, and a world developing in ways necessarily reducing U.S. hegemony. By probing beneath the obvious and carefully sifting the abundant but poorly understood evidence, Skidmore finds at the root of Carter's failed effort an irresistible pressure to reverse a liberal foreign-policy agenda in order to address the effect at home of well-organized conservative criticism. For Skidmore, Carter's course "reversed" tow and a traditional containment strategy vis-a-vis the Soviet Union not because of Soviet intransigence or faulty idealism but because Cold War politics sold better in the polls. While offering significant theoretical arguments, Skidmore carefully anchors his thesis in the day-to-day political give and take among those personalities and events that provoked headlines and commentaries long before they were the stuff of history. Although Skidmore draws conclusions that apply to the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations as well, his focus is not on personality but on theory and underlying structures. Here is persuasive demonstration that this structural approach can "be helpful not only in unraveling the mysteries of policy change under Carter but also in specifying the underlying sources of policy vacillation over much of the past two decades."".
• catalog contributor b9339936.
• catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations 1977-1981.".
• catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1977-1981.".
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "In Reversing Course, David Skidmore argues that President Carter's initial foreign policy agenda sought to scale back U.S. commitment's abroad, reflecting a decline in resources, as well as influence, and a world developing in ways necessarily reducing U.S. hegemony. By probing beneath the obvious and carefully sifting the abundant but poorly understood evidence, Skidmore finds at the root of Carter's failed effort an irresistible pressure to reverse a liberal foreign-policy agenda in order to address the effect at home of well-organized conservative criticism. For Skidmore, Carter's course "reversed" tow and a traditional containment strategy vis-a-vis the Soviet Union not because of Soviet intransigence or faulty idealism but because Cold War politics sold better in the polls. While offering significant theoretical arguments, Skidmore carefully anchors his thesis in the day-to-day political give and take among those personalities and events that provoked headlines and commentaries long before they were the stuff of history. Although Skidmore draws conclusions that apply to the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations as well, his focus is not on personality but on theory and underlying structures. Here is persuasive demonstration that this structural approach can "be helpful not only in unraveling the mysteries of policy change under Carter but also in specifying the underlying sources of policy vacillation over much of the past two decades."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.".
• catalog description "The Politics of Decline -- 1. Explaining State Responses to International Change -- 2. Interpreting the Carter Administration's Foreign Policies -- 3. The Sources of Policy Change -- 4. The Search for Policy Legitimacy -- 5. Interest Group Politics and National Security Policy -- 6. American Foreign Policy under Reagan, Bush, and Clinton -- 7. A Structural Approach to Foreign Policy Analysis.".
• catalog extent "xxii, 234 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0826512739 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations 1977-1981.".
• catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1977-1981.".
• catalog subject "327.73/009/047 20".
• catalog subject "Carter, Jimmy, 1924-".
• catalog subject "E872 .S556 1996".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Politics of Decline -- 1. Explaining State Responses to International Change -- 2. Interpreting the Carter Administration's Foreign Policies -- 3. The Sources of Policy Change -- 4. The Search for Policy Legitimacy -- 5. Interest Group Politics and National Security Policy -- 6. American Foreign Policy under Reagan, Bush, and Clinton -- 7. A Structural Approach to Foreign Policy Analysis.".
• catalog title "Reversing course : Carter's foreign policy, domestic politics, and the failure of reform / David Skidmore.".
• catalog type "text".