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Faces Of Internationalism: Public Opinion And American Foreign Policy

Eugene R. Wittkopf
Reviewed by By William G. Hyland
Summer 1991
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Eugene R. Wittkopf
Duke University Press
1990
391 pp.
$45.00

Drawing on detailed opinion surveys conducted in 1974-86 by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and supplying a mass of tables and graphs, the author demonstrates the connections between partisanship, policy preferences and core beliefs (along a spectrum from cooperative to militant internationalism). The book is useful both for those seeking public opinion data in handy form and those interested in the methodologies of survey research.

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