Realism and Idealism in Foreign Policy Decision Making

This book examines the foreign policy decisions of individual US presidents—including Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

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Using a typology of worldviews based on perception of threat and expansionist or isolationist objectives, Hayden J. Smith examines influences on the foreign policy decision-making of individual US Presidents—including Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.