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The end of the Cold War, globalization, and partisanship have all contributed to changing the way foreign policy is made. When the Cold War ended, the basic consensus about the purpose of foreign policy was eliminated, and any number of definitions of the national interest became possible. Since the survival of the United States is no longer at stake, those definitions now have more to do with the interests of the people making them than with the interests of the nation as a whole.
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Jett, D.C. (2008). How It Really Works. In: Why American Foreign Policy Fails. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611771_4
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