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Article: Are "influentials" less influential? U.S. foreign policy elites in a Post-Cold War information age.
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- World Affairs
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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ELITES AND FOREIGN POLICY IN THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Conventional wisdom holds that today elites inside and outside of government will play a much more circumscribed role in shaping U.S. foreign policy than they have in the last half-century. Two contextual changes are cited as reasons for their diminished role. First, the end of the Cold War era has removed the special imperative for a foreign policy establishment to oversee a concerted strategy for competing with a rival superpower. Second, proliferating channels of communication in the so-called information age - informing the public about international issues and transmitting the public will about those issues to ...