Are "influentials" less influential? US. foreign policy elites in a post-Cold War information age.

World Affairs | December 22, 1996| | Copyright

ELITES AND FOREIGN POLICY IN THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Conventional wisdom holds that today elites inside and outside of government will play a much more circumscribed role in shaping U.S. foreign policy than they have in the last half-century. Two contextual changes are cited as reasons for their diminished role. First, the end of the Cold War era has removed the special imperative for a foreign policy establishment to oversee a concerted strategy for competing with a rival superpower. Second, proliferating channels of communication in the so-called information age - ...

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