American foreign policy profoundly affects the world’s most pressing issues. But as Benjamin Page and Marshall Bouton forcefully argue, our government’s foreign policies are not affected enough by American public opinion, which is much more sensible than conventional wisdom suggests. With midterm elections fast approaching and international events setting the tone for this fall’s most important political races, The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don’t Get couldn’t have arrived at a better time to support with hard evidence its contention that our leaders should finally give the American people what we’ve long wanted: a more balanced, consistent, and democratic approach to foreign policy.
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