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Interest Groups and American Foreign Policy

Interest Groups and American Foreign Policy. From Whence Interest Groups?. Spontaneous Formation Collective Action Problem Policy Entrepreneurs Patrons of Political Activity. Interest Group Strength. Organizational strength Membership unity and voting Rise of ethnic interest groups

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Interest Groups and American Foreign Policy

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  1. Interest Groups and American Foreign Policy

  2. From Whence Interest Groups? • Spontaneous Formation • Collective Action Problem • Policy Entrepreneurs • Patrons of Political Activity

  3. Interest Group Strength • Organizational strength • Membership unity and voting • Rise of ethnic interest groups • Salience of the message • Access to government • Pushing an open door? • Mutually supportive relationships

  4. Context: US-Cuba Policy • Platt Amendment 1901 • Cuban Revolution 1959 • Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961 • Embargo Policy • (Failed) Rapprochement under Carter

  5. Reagan and CANF • Central America: “Go to the Source” • Richard V. Allen and Jorge Mas Canosa • AIPAC model • Radio and TV Marti • National Endowment for Democracy • INS • Yeltsin, and Southern Africa

  6. Cuba Policy at the end of the Cold War • Ease up, or press down harder? • Haiti • Bush and Cuban Democracy Act • Electoral Politics • New members of Congress • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) ‘89 • Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) ‘93 • Robert J. Menendez (D-NJ) ‘93

  7. Clinton and Cuba Policy • Mario Baeza’s Almost Nomination 1993 • Immigration Decision 1994 • Brothers to the Rescue 1996 • LIBERTAD (Helms-Burton) 1996 • Waiving Helms-Burton 1996- • Clinton Unilateral Initiatives in 1998 &1999 • Business and Farm Groups Fight Back

  8. Who Runs This Joint, Anyway? • LIBERTAD Codified the Embargo • President Called Parts of it “Precatory” • Titles III & IV; Section 102 & Section 112 • 3 Cuban-Americans in Congress • CANF vs. USA*Engage? • Council on Foreign Relations Task Force • “Gore Commission” • Bush’s future (have you seen the new census?)

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