INTRODUCTION:POLICYMAKING IS POLITICS 1
1．Roger Hilsman“Policy-Making Is Politics” 1
PART ONE:THE GOVERNMENT AND THE POLICYMAKING PROCESS 11
THE PRESIDENCY 12
2．Richard E.Neustadt“Leader or Clerk?” 12
3．Fred I.Greenstein“Ronald Reagan—Another Hidden-HandIke?” 17
4．Cecil V.Crabb and Kevin V.Mulcahy“George Bush's Management Style and Operation Desert Storm” 28
5．Fred I.Greenstein“The Two Leadership Styles of William Jefferson Clinton” 43
THE NSC AND PRINCIPAL POLICYMAKERS 53
6．Kevin V.Mulcahy and Harold F.Kendrick“The National Security Adviser:A Presidential Perspective” 53
7．Henry Kissinger“Getting Organized” 70
8．Kevin V.Mulcahy“The Secretary of State and the National Security Adviser:Foreign Policyrnaking in the Carter and Reagan Administrations” 79
9．Elaine Sciolino“Christopher and Lake Vying for Control of Foreign Policy” 99
10．U.S.,National Security Act of 1947“National Security Council” 102
THE FOREIGN POLICY BUREAUCRACY 104
11．Duncan L.Clarke“Why State Can't Lead” 104
12．David C.Jones“What's Wrong with Our Defense Establishment” 114
13．Gregg Easterbrook“Operation Desert Shill” 128
14．Martin Binkin“The New Face of the American Military:The Volunteer Force and the Persian Gulf War” 144
15．Gregory L.Vistica“Anchors Aweigh” 156
16．Jacob Heilbrunn“The Old Boy at War” 159
17．Kenneth E.Sharpe“The Real Cause of Irangate” 169
18．Marvin Ott“Shaking up the CIA” 185
19．Ben Wildavsky“Under the Gun(at the National Economic Council)” 199
20．U.S.,National Security Act of 1947“Central Intelligence Agency” 208
EXECUTIVE BRANCH POLICYMAKING 211
21．Jerel A.Rosati“The Policymaking Process” 211
22．Mark Hosenball“The Odd Couple:How George Bush Helped Create Saddam Hussein” 228
CONGRESS,LEGISLATIVE-EXECUTIVE RELATIONS,AND THE CONSTITUTION 238
23．George Szamuely“The Imperial Congress” 238
24．Arthur Schlesinger,Jr.“The Imperial Temptation” 248
25．Michael J.Glennon“The GulfWar and the Constitution” 253
26．Pamela Fessler“Congress'Record on Saddam:Decade of Talk,NotAction” 267
27．Eric Alterman“Ron Dellums:Radical Insider” 278
28．Dick Kirschten“Where's the Bite(in Jesse Helms)?” 292
29．L.Gordon Crovitz“Crime,the Constitution,and the Iran-Contra Affair” 300
30．John Canham-Clyne“Business as Usual:Iran-Contra and the National Security State” 313
31．Michael H.Shuman“Dateline Main Street:Local Foreign Policies” 327
32．U.S.Constitution“The Legislative,Executive,and Judicial Branches” 334
33．U.S.Supreme Court“UnitedStates v.Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation etal.” 337
34．U.S.Supreme Court“Youngstown Sheet？Tube Co.v.Sawyer(Steef Seizure Case)” 342
35．U.S.Tonkin Gulf Resolution 348
36. U.S.War Powers Resolution of 1973 350
37．U.S.Persian Gulf Resolution 355
PART TwO:THE SOCIETY AND DOMESTIC POLITICS 359
THE PUBLIC AND ITS BELIEFS 360
38．Ole R.Holsti and James N.Rosenau“A Leadership Divided:The Foreign Policy Beliefs ofAmerican Leaders,1976-1984” 360
39．Tami R.Davis and Sean M.Lynn-Jones“Citty Upon a Hill” 376
40．Sidney Blumenthal“The Return of the Repressed:Anti-Internationalism and the American Right” 386
41．U.S.President John F.Kennedy“Inaugural Address” 401
ELECTORAL AND GROUP POLITICS 404
42．Godfrey Hodgson“The Establishment” 404
43．Joe Conason“The Iraq Lobby” 417
44．John B.Judis“The Contract with K Street” 422
45．Chung-in Moon“Complex Interdependence and Transnational Lobbying:South Korea in the United States” 432
46．Clifford T.Honicker“The Hidden Files:America's Radiation Victims” 454
47．Keith Schneider“Idaho Says No” 466
48．Morton H.Halperin and Jeanne M.Woods“Ending the Cold War at Home” 474
49．U.S.President Dwight D.Eisenhower“Farewell Address” 485
THE MEDIA AND THE COMMUNICATIONS PROCESS 489
50．Shanto Iyengar and Donald R.Kinder“News That Matters” 489
51．Daniel C.Hallin“The Media,the War in Vietnam,and Political Support:A Critique of the Thesis of an Oppositional Media” 496
52．Marie Gottschalk“Operation Desert Cloud:The Media and the GulfWar” 517
53．Tom Rosenstiel“The Myth of CNN” 547
54．Thomas Byrne Edsall“America's Sweetheart—Rush Limbaugh” 556
CONCLUSION:THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POWER AND THE POLITICS OF U.S.FOREIGN POLICY 563
55．Paul Kennedy “The (Relative)Decline ofAmerica” 563
56．Joseph S.Nye,Jr.“The Misleading Metaphor of Decline” 576
57．Jerel A.Rosati“The Politics of U.S.Foreign Policy Revisited” 588
Credits 607