Political conflict and foreign policy in the United States: A geographical interpretation

摘要: Abstract Since the early 1970s, America's leaders have experienced great difficulty in mobilizing broad national support for their foreign policies. Deep and persistent conflict has been norm, hampering leaders' capacity to advance coherent programmatic policy. Most analysts identify ideological or institutional cleavages at level as source of domestic political competition over This study offers an alternative, geographically-based interpretation. An analysis voting Congress reveals that conflicts ends means American power split nation along regional lines, pitting Northeast against South. It is argued these revolved around uneven costs benefits policies were associated with Pax Americana Cold War era. Like other periods history when there was little consensus ‘the interest’, today's are grounded inter-regional struggles economic advantage.