Here is the revised edition of a text that has practically become a classic in the field of American foreign policy. Like its predecessor, the new edition of "Policy Makers and Critics" addresses America's policy abroad ... and why it is so difficult for policymakers and the public to agree on our proper and legitimate role in world affairs. With events in South Africa, Libya, the Philippines, and Haiti, among others, the book may be more timely now than ever before.

Here is the revised edition of a text that has practically become a classic in the field of American foreign policy. Like its predecessor, the new edition of "Policy Makers and Critics" addresses America's policy abroad...and why it is so difficult for policymakers and the public to agree on our proper and legitimate role in world affairs. With events in South Africa, Libya, the Philippines, and Haiti, among others, the book may be more timely now than ever before.

In this highly original and thoroughly informed study, Cecil V. Crabb, Jr., Glenn Antizzo, and Leila S. Sarieddine identify and examine recurring modes or patterns of legislative behavior over the span of America's diplomatic experience. Although congressional involvement in foreign policy making has received much scholarly attention, this work is groundbreaking in that it focuses on those patterns of congressional conduct that have repeated themselves over time and, on the basis of experience, will probably continue to occur. Thus it creates a large, predictable framework of legislative...