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Presidents, Bureaucrats and Foreign Policy : The Politics of Organizational Reform / I. M. Destler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1847Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1974Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691618425
  • 9781400868827
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 353.008/92
LOC classification:
  • JX1417
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the 1974 Edition -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. How Not to Reorganize the Government -- CHAPTER THREE. Organization and Bureaucratic Politics -- CHAPTER FOUR. What to Do? The Need for an Organizational Strategy -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Strategies of Presidents: Foreign Policy-Making under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon -- CHAPTER SIX. Problems with State: Presidential Dissatisfaction and Efforts at Reform -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Formal Approaches to Coherent Foreign Policy -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Uses of Staffs -- CHAPTER NINE. Building Lines of Confidence: A State-Centered Organizational Strategy -- EPILOGUE. The Nixon System-A Further Look -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliographical Notes -- Index
Summary: The author has provided an epilogue which takes into account foreign policy developments since 1971. He considers the implications of the appointment of Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State and deals with some of the larger issues raised by the events of the past two years.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the 1974 Edition -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. How Not to Reorganize the Government -- CHAPTER THREE. Organization and Bureaucratic Politics -- CHAPTER FOUR. What to Do? The Need for an Organizational Strategy -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Strategies of Presidents: Foreign Policy-Making under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon -- CHAPTER SIX. Problems with State: Presidential Dissatisfaction and Efforts at Reform -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Formal Approaches to Coherent Foreign Policy -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Uses of Staffs -- CHAPTER NINE. Building Lines of Confidence: A State-Centered Organizational Strategy -- EPILOGUE. The Nixon System-A Further Look -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliographical Notes -- Index

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The author has provided an epilogue which takes into account foreign policy developments since 1971. He considers the implications of the appointment of Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State and deals with some of the larger issues raised by the events of the past two years.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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