Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government : : Convergence and Divergence in Making Foreign Policy / / ed. by Josh DeWind, Renata Segura.

As a nation ofimmigrants, the United States has long accepted that citizens who identify withan ancestral homeland may hold dual loyalties; yet Americans have at timesregarded the persistence of foreign ties with suspicion, seeing them as a sign ofpotential disloyalty and a threat to national securi...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Social Science Research Council ; 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter one. Diaspora-government relations in forging us foreign policies
  • Diasporas
  • Chapter two. The effects of Diasporas’ nature, types, and goals on hostland foreign policies
  • Competing convergent or divergent interests?
  • Chapter three. Between Jdate and j street: us foreign policy and the liberal Jewish dilemma in America
  • Chapter four. Palestinians, Diasporas, and us foreign policy
  • When diaspora interests shape foreign policy
  • Chapter five. America’s role in the northern Ireland peace process
  • Chapter six. Cuban Americans and us Cuba policy
  • When government interests shape foreign policy
  • Chapter seven. Diaspora lobbying and Ethiopian politics
  • Chapter eight. The Haitian diaspora: building bridges after catastrophe
  • Diaspora-government convergence in policy making
  • Chapter nine. The Iraqi diaspora and the us invasion of Iraq
  • Historical perspective
  • Chapter ten. Convergence and divergence yesterday and today in diaspora–national government relations
  • Contributors
  • Index