Foreign Policy Making

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Foreign Policy Reappraisal After Nixon

A merican foreign policy has long been a target for public criticism. Recent dissatisfaction has been directed at both specific policies and the way foreign policy is being made. The heady years of the Nixon administration's triumphs have been followed by afterthoughts, disappointments and doubts. Détente with Russia, the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, is in jeopardy, reconciliation with China has been limited, war rather than peace is the outlook for the Middle East, and the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam and the peace treaty signed two years ago have ended neither the fighting nor the demand for continued American aid.

Congress, the press and some disgruntled and outspoken bureaucrats in the foreign policy establishment have also been critical of ...

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