Bulletin n. 1/2012 | ||
June 2012 | ||
Fry Joseph A. |
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Place Matters: Domestic Regionalism and the Formation of American Foreign Policy | ||
in Diplomatic History , vol. 36, n. 3, June , 2012 , 451-482 | ||
Place matters in how Americans and their political representative have responded to U.S foreign relations. Domestic regionalism has exercised a persistent and at times primary influence on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. Through a selective historiographical review of the literature addressing New England, the Midwest, and the South, this article urges scholars to recognize this important domestic influence on policy formation—an influence that affords the opportunity to assess ideological, racial, religious, economic, and political considerations in a useful collective fashion. | ||