Overview
A new president, George W. Bush, has been elected. A new administration is now in charge of the US foreign policy. Some of the issues they face and some of the positions they have been taking are similar to those of the Clinton administration and other predecessors; some are different. As so often in the past, the foreign policy agenda is a combination of change and continuity. In this Special Update to American Foreign Policy: The Bush Administration and the Dynamics of Choice, Bruce Jentleson offers an initial perspective on foreign policy politics and foreign policy strategy in the Bush administration.Author Biography: Bruce W. Jentleson is Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and professor of public policy and political science at Duke University. He has taught numerous courses on American foreign policy and has received awards for outstanding teaching from the University of California, Davis and the American Political Science Association. He has served on the State Department Policy Planning Staff, as a foreign policy aide to then-Senator Al Gore, and in other foreign policy capacities. Professor Jentleson's other publications include The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (co-senior editor, four volumes, Oxford University Press, 1997), and With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush, and Saddam, 1982-1990 (W.W. Norton, 1994).