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Reversing Course by David Skidmore (1996, Hardcover, Illustrated) 
Reversing Course by David Skidmore (1996, Hardcover, Illustrated)
Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0826512739
ISBN-13: 9780826512734
Product ID: EPID719016
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Publication Date:1996-06-01
Edition Description:Illustrated

Size
Length:234 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:20.0 oz

Publisher's Note
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".

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