America in World Affairs: Foundations of American Government and Political Science

This book is designed as an elementary guide to some of the fundamental considerations involved in American foreign policy....The first two chapters] attempt to analyze the world arena in which the United States moves...Chapters 3 and 4 deal with two categories of factors that affect American action: the history of American foreign policy and the governmental mechanisms for the formulation and execution of policy....Chapter 5 deals with the Soviet-American struggle, and Chapter 6 considers a group of related issues.