Finding that the foreign policy process in the United States of the post-Cold War period has become "more open, pluralistic, and deeply partisan," Carter (political science, Texas Christian U.) has selected these 15 case studies of US foreign policy to illustrate to students both the range and diversity of issues facing policy makers and the variety of participants in the policy making process, with most cases featuring jurisdictional competition between the executive and legislative branches of government. He presents case studies of intervention policy related to Bosnia, Colombia, and Osama Bin Laden in Sudan and Afghanistan; national security and defense policy as it pertains to the Bush doctrine of "preemption" and the war in Iraq, North Korea's nuclear program, creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and the rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; trade policy in the cases of steel import tariffs, the Cuba embargo, and Sino-American relations; and struggles over multilateralism in relation to the Kyoto Protocol; the International Criminal Court; reform of the International Monetary Fund; and the rights of prisoners detained by the United States in its so-called "war on terrorism." Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less