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An analysis of American foreign policy: a case study of the pipeline sanctions against the Soviet Union

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dc.contributor.authorWasser, Iringen
dc.contributor.committeechairShaiko, Ronald G.en
dc.contributor.committeememberRich, Richard C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberTaylor, Charles L.en
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:41:59Zen
dc.date.adate2012-08-01en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:41:59Zen
dc.date.issued1988-02-22en
dc.date.rdate2012-08-01en
dc.date.sdate2012-08-01en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on the following questions: What accounts for U.S. foreign policy? Where is causation located in the foreign process? What changes have taken place in this process over the past 20 years and what are its present characteristics? In providing answers to these questions I refer to James Rosenau's pretheory, a widely employed theoretical framework for the analysis of foreign policy. Rosenau identified five interrelated variable categories which together determine the foreign policy behavior of the United States. He assigned relative potencies to the variable categories thereby ranking them according to their explanatory power. In this thesis, an adapted version of Rosenau's pretheory was used for the analysis of the first major foreign policy crisis of the Reagan administration, the Soviet pipeline sanctions. This foreign policy episode proved to be an excellent illustration of how changes in the domestic and external environment have caused a transformation of U.S. foreign policy in the past two decades. It was found that the domestic foundation of U.S. foreign policy - congressional bipartisanship, executive branch unity, a supportive public and the backing of interest groups - has been replaced by a divided public, antagonist interest groups, a fragmented Executive, and an assertive Congress. These domestic changes were accompanied by external changes, especially the declining ability of the United States to control its external environment. These factors placed constraints on an independent U.S. foreign policy and most of them proved to promote continuity rather than change in the foreign policy behavior of the United States.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentix, 130 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-08012012-040430en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08012012-040430/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/44095en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1988.W368.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 18316044en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1988.W368en
dc.subject.lcshPipelines -- Soviet Unionen
dc.subject.lcshUnited States -- Foreign relationsen
dc.titleAn analysis of American foreign policy: a case study of the pipeline sanctions against the Soviet Unionen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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