Topic 6

Required Reading

Trevor Rubenzer, “Campaign Contributions and US Foreign Policy Outcomes, an Analysis of Cuban American Interest”, American Journal of Political Science, Jan, 2011, Vol.55(1), pp.105-116.

Eytan Gilboa, “Global TV News and Foreign Policy, Debating the CNN Effect”, International Studies Perspectives, 2005, Vol.6(3), pp.325-341.

Steven Kull & Clay Ramsay, “Challenging US Policymakers' Image of an Isolationist Public”, International Studies Perspectives, 2000, Vol.1(1), pp.105-117.

Ikuo Kabashima & Hideo Sato, “Local Content and Congressional Politics, Interest-group Theory and Foreign-policy Implications”, International Studies Quarterly, 1 September 1986, Vol.30(3), pp.295-314.

Andrew Battista, “Unions and Cold War Foreign Policy in the 1980s: The National Labor Committee, the AFL-CIO, and Central America”, Diplomatic History, 2002, Vol.26(3), pp.419-451.

Philip J. Powlick & Andrew Z. Katz, “Defining the American Public Opinion / Foreign Policy Nexus”, Mershon International Studies Review, 1998, Vol.42(1), pp.29-61.

Kurt Taylor Gaubatz, “Intervention and Intransitivity, Public Opinion, Social Choice and the Use of Military Force Abroad”, World politics, 1995, Vol.47(4), pp.534-554.

Alexander Odorov & Anesu N. Mandisodza, “Public Opinion on Foreign Policy: The Multilateral Public That Perceives itself as unilateral”, The Public Opinion Quarterly, 1 October 2004, Vol.68(3), pp.323-348.

Thomas Knecht, M. Stephen Weatherford, “Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: the Stages of Presidential Decision Making”, International Studies Quarterly, 2006, Vol.50(3), pp.705-727.

Donald L. Jordan & Benjamin I. Page, “Shaping Foreign Policy Opinions, The Role of TV News” Journal of Conflict Resolution, June, 1992, Vol.36(2), pp.227-241.