Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism

by Steven Kull, I.M. Destler, Celinda Lake, et al.

Book Overview

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Do American policymakers really know what the American public wants in U.S. foreign policy? Through extensive interviews with members of the policy community, the authors reveal a pervasive belief--especially in Congress--that, in the wake of the cold war, the public is showing a new isolationism: opposition to foreign aid, hostility to the United Nations, and aversion to contributing U.S. troops to peacekeeping operations. This view of the public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815717652
• ISBN13: 9780815717652
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"