Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy Second edition

Preface

1. The ABM Puzzle: An Introduction to Politics inside Government

PART I: INTERESTS AND PARTICIPANTS

2. National Security Interests

3. Organizational Interests

4. Domestic Politics and Presidential Interests

5. Interests, Faces, and Stands

PART II: DECISIONS

6. Initiative and Rules

7. Planning a Decision Strategy

8. Information and Arguments

9. Maneuvers to Affect Information

10. Uses of the Press

11. Involving the President

12. Influence and Decisions

PART III: ACTIONS

13. Decisions and Implementation

14. Actions in the Field

15. Presidential Control

PART IV: CONGRESS

16. Congress and Bureaucratic Politics

PART V: CONCLUSIONS

17. Back to ABM: Some Tentative Answers

18. A Complicated Reality

References and Bibliography

Index