Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity

Campbell (political science, Johns Hopkins U.) transcends the current debate about reorienting US foreign policy in light of The Evil Empire's collapse, and reappraises the fundamental underpinnings of foreign policy in a way that could disturb many people. He argues that foreign policy is not the expression of an existing society, but rather creates that society by naming external threats. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.