Every Citizen a Statesman : : The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century / / David Allen.
The surprising story of the movement to create a truly democratic foreign policy by engaging ordinary Americans in world affairs.No major arena of US governance is more elitist than foreign policy. International relations barely surface in election campaigns, and policymakers take little input from...
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