After the End

<div>In the political landscape emerging from the end of the Cold War making U.S. foreign policy has become more difficult due in part to less clarity and consensus about threats and interests. In <i>After the End</i> James M. Scott brings together a group of scholars to explore the changing international situation since 1991 and to examine the characteristics and patterns of policy making that are emerging in response to a post-Cold War world.<br>These essays examine the recent efforts of U.S. policymakers to recast the roles interests and purposes of the United States both at home and abroad in a political environment where policy making has become increasingly decentralized and democratized. The contributors suggest that foreign policy leadership has shifted from White House and executive branch dominance to an expanded group of actors that includes the president Congress the foreign policy bureaucracy interest groups the media and the public. The volume includes case studies that focus on China Russia Bosnia Somalia democracy promotion foreign aid and NAFTA. Together these chapters describe how policy making after 1991 compares to that of other periods and suggest how foreign policy will develop in the future.<br>This collection provides a broad balanced evaluation of U.S. foreign policy making in the post-Cold War setting for scholars teachers and students of U.S. foreign policy political science history and international studies.<p><i>Contributors</i>. Ralph G. Carter Richard Clark A. Lane Crothers I. M. Destler Ole R. Holsti Steven W. Hook Christopher M. Jones James M. McCormick Jerel Rosati Jeremy Rosner John T. Rourke Renee G. Scherlen Peter J. Schraeder James M. Scott Jennifer Sterling-Folker Rick Travis Stephen Twing</p></div>