Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
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Foreign Policy - The Mechanism of Influence
When business interests are unsure what the impact of a foreign policy will be for their bottom line, they should be more likely to focus their lobbying efforts elsewhere. The mechanism of influence is outbidding all other competitors in the market place of ideas by one donating to the most influential think tanks and two funding movements as in the case of neo conservatives who pushed forth sidam's overthrow. Three, bureaucratizing public opinion management. Four, boxing in the president's major foreign policy decision by military generals. Five, shaping foreign policy, reporting from propagandistic journal in the close knit foreign policy community. Six, revolving doors is for all three concentrated interests to actively collaborate.
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