Shedding new light on how U.S. foreign policy is made, Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott focus on congressional foreign policy entrepreneurs, the often unrecognized representatives and senators who take action on foreign policy matters rather than waiting for the executive branch to do so. These proactive members of Congress have undertaken many initiatives, including reaching out to Franco s Spain, promoting detente with the Soviet Union, proposing the return of the Panama Canal, seeking to ban military aid to Pinochet s regime in Chile, pushing for military intervention in Haiti, and...

Shedding new light on how U.S. foreign policy is made, Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott focus on congressional foreign policy entrepreneurs, the often unrecognized representatives and senators who take action on foreign policy matters rather than waiting for the executive branch to do so. These proactive members of Congress have undertaken many initiatives, including reaching out to Franco s Spain, promoting detente with the Soviet Union, proposing the return of the Panama Canal, seeking to ban military aid to Pinochet s regime in Chile, pushing for military intervention in Haiti, and...