Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy

Book by James M. Lindsay

Publisher – Johns Hopkins University Press

Release Date – Aug 1994

Pages – 280

ISBN 978-0801848827

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James Lindsay offers a timely and comprehensive examination of the role the modern Congress plays in foreign policy. He shows how the resurgence of congressional activism marks a return to the pattern that was once the norm in American politics. He analyzes the distribution of decision-making authority in Congress and offers a broader understanding of how the United States will develop a new foreign policy for the post-Cold War world.

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