The Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy and NATO

This book argues that domestic politics and political pressures determine the extent of the U.S. role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from the emergence of containment strategy against the Soviet Union to the Russian war in Ukraine. NATO has evolved in the domestic politics of U.S. foreign policy from a conventional military alliance to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War to an important instrument in the competition against China and Russia. This book examines American domestic political implications of U.S. security commitments to NATO. It adopts a historical approach and places the U.S. foreign policy toward NATO on the domestic level of analysis by highlighting domestic political determinants in the foreign policymaking process. It also highlights the connections between the Biden Administration's definition of a struggle between democracy and autocracy and the state of American democracy following the January 6th insurrection by far-right Trump extremists. U.S. These include the evolution of American attitudes towards NATO, societal and economic factors, and entrenched bureaucratic interests shaping U.S. foreign policy. The book incorporates the contributions of major theoretical works on the domestic political factors that shape foreign policy preferences and behavior to understand the extent to which domestic politics influences the historical evolution of the U.S. role in NATO and American foreign policy toward Europe.

Discusses the domestic determinants of U.S. foreign policy, democracy and autocracy post-January 6 2021 Capitol attack Provides early assessment of the emerging foreign policy for the middle class doctrine of the Biden Administration Provides recommendations and domestic political implications for future U.S. foreign policy in the transatlantic space

Autorentext
Chris J. Dolan is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Master's of Science program in Intelligence and Security Studies at Lebanon Valley College and a two-time Fulbright U.S. Scholar (North Macedonia, 2022; Kosovo, 2020).

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Continuity and Change in U.S. Foreign Policy Toward NATO.- Chapter 2: American Public Perceptions and U.S. Foreign Policy toward Europe.- Chapter 3: Foreign Policy Elites and the National Security State.- Chapter 4: Democracy Promotion and Euro-Atlantic Integration.- Chapter 5: From Nation-Building at Home to America First and Make America Great Again.- Chapter 6: A Foreign Policy for the Middle Class?.- Chapter 7: Conclusions.