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Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains: American Foreign Policy and Presidential Elections Hardcover - 2015

by Michael Armacost


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Drawing on twenty-four years of experience in government, Michael H. Armacost explores how the contours of the U.S. presidential election system influence the content and conduct of American foreign policy. He examines how the nomination battle impels candidates to express deference to the foreign policy DNA of their party and may force an incumbent to make wholesale policy adjustments to fend off an intra-party challenge for the nomination. He describes the way reelection campaigns can prod a chief executive to fix long-neglected problems, kick intractable policy dilemmas down the road, settle for modest course corrections, or scapegoat others for policies gone awry. Armacost begins his book with the quest for the presidential nomination and then moves through the general election campaign, the ten-week transition period between Election Day and Inauguration Day, and the early months of a new administration. He notes that campaigns rarely illuminate the tough foreign policy choices that the leader of the nation must make, and he offers rare insight into the challenge of aligning the roles of an outgoing incumbent (who performs official duties despite ebbing power) and the incoming successor (who has no official role but possesses a fresh political mandate). He pays particular attention to the pressure for new presidents to act boldly abroad in the early months of his tenure, even before a national security team is in place, decision-making procedures are set, or policy priorities are firmly established. He concludes with an appraisal of the virtues and liabilities of the system, including suggestions for modestly adjusting some of its features while preserving its distinct character.

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  • Title Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains: American Foreign Policy and Presidential Elections
  • Author Michael Armacost
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York, NY
  • Date 2015-08-04
  • ISBN 9780231169929 / 0231169922
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Foreign relations - 1989-, United States - Foreign relations - 1945-1989
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014049266
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.73

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Citations

  • Choice, 01/01/2016, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2015, Page 111
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/08/2015, Page 0

About the author

Michael H. Armacost is a Shorenstein APARC Fellow at Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. He has held senior positions at the Department of Defense and on the National Security Council. He has also served as undersecretary of state for political affairs and as U.S. ambassador to the Philippines and Japan. He was president of the Brookings Institution from 1995 to 2002. He has received the President's Distinguished Service Award, the Defense Department's Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award, and the Japanese government's Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun. He is the author of Friends or Rivals? The Insider's Account of U.S.-Japan Relations and The Politics of Weapons Innovation: The Thor-Jupiter Controversy. He also coedited, with Daniel Okimoto, The Future of America's Alliances in Northeast Asia.
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