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100 1 $aAlterman, Eric.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92101908
245 10 $aWho speaks for America? :$bwhy democracy matters in foreign policy /$cEric Alterman.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c1998.
300 $aix, 244 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-230) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Foreign Policy for the Few --$gSect. I.$tThe Rise and Fall of a Liberal Republic: A Short History.$g1.$tVirtue, Commerce, and Perpetual Motion.$g2.$tSlouching toward Rome.$g3.$tPresent Dangers --$gSect. II.$tThe Anatomy of Pseudodemocracy.$g4.$tThe New World Order: Trading Away Democracy.$g5.$tThriving on Chaos: Foreign Policymaking and Special-Interest Manipulation.$g6.$tThe Media Cacophony: Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens.$tConclusion: Reviving the Liberal Republic: An Immodest Proposal --$tAppendix: A Democratic Foreign Policy Today.
520 $aJournalist and historian Eric Alterman argues that the vast majority of Americans have virtually no voice in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. With policymakers answerable only to a small coterie of self-appointed experts, corporate lobbyists, self-interested parties, and the elite media, the U.S. foreign policy operates not as the instrument of a democracy, but of a "pseudo-democracy": a political system with the trappings of democratic checks and balances but with little of their content.
520 8 $aThis failure of American democracy is all the more troubling, Alterman charges, now that the Cold War is over and the era of global capital has replaced it. Americans' stake in so-called foreign policy issues from trade to global warming is greater than ever. Yet the current system serves to mute their voices and ignore their concerns. Alterman concludes with a series of challenging proposals for reforms designed to create a truly democratic U.S. foreign policy.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$xDecision making.
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650 0 $aDemocracy$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102152
650 0 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010105279
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