Preface -- Introduction: tools and tool users -- The framer's design -- Following the blueprint -- The president's toolkit -- Congress's toolkit -- Shared tools of the budgetary process -- The diplomatic instrument -- The economic instruments -- The military instrument -- The secret intelligence instruments -- The homeland security instruments -- The international institutions instrument -- Elephants in the workshop -- Missing tools
Summary
How is foreign policy in the United States really crafted? Who does the work? How are the various activities of the many key participants coordinated and controlled? In 'America's Foreign Policy Toolkit', Charles A. Stevenson identifies for students what the key foreign policy tools are, clarifies which tools are best for which tasks, describes the factors that constrain or push how they're used, and provides fresh insight into the myriad challenges facing national security decisionmakers
