U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power

For Hook (political science, Kent State U.) the paradox of US power is that its sources—"a culturally embedded sense of national exceptionalism, the diffusion of domestic foreign-policy powers, and the free rein granted to civil society in the foreign policy process"—have become sources of vulnerability as well, prompting an incoherency in foreign policy. He attempts to explain how these factors have impacted the process of policy formation and the results in the policy domains of national ...