Presidents and their advisors consistently seek to improve the management of their foreign policy decision processes. This book analyzes the successes and failures of administrations from Kennedy to Nixon as they sought to strike a balance between the personal style of the president and the need for a strong interagency structure that could systematically evaluate policy options. The narrative focuses on US decision making on China and Taiwan during the crucial era when the US was considering moving from a policy of isolating China to a policy of engagement, culminating in Nixon’s historic 1972 trip to China. William Waltman Newmann has created an Evolution-Balancing model, tested with case studies focusing on China policy by Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, showing how the relationships between a president and his advisors change based on the weaknesses or pathologies of the president’s management style. The author’s research is based on declassified archival material from the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford presidential libraries.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Chinese Transliteration and Sources
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: The Evolution-Balance Model
- Chapter Three: John F. Kennedy: “A Livelier Sense of Duty”
- Chapter Four: Kennedy and China
- Chapter Five: Lyndon B. Johnson: “Energy in the Executive”
- Chapter Six: Johnson and China
- Chapter Seven: Richard M. Nixon: “If Men Were Angels…”
- Chapter Eight: Nixon and China
- Chapter Nine: Conclusion
William Waltman Newmann is Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University.
