Foreign policy actors

The President/Congress dyarchy

       1.1 Distribution of original powers
           1.1.1 The Powers of Congress
           1.1.2 Powers of the President
       1.2 Changes in power relations

The bureaucratic maze

       2.1 Departments
           2.1.1 The Department of State
           2.1.2 The Department of Defense
           2.1.3 The Treasury Department
           2.1.4 The Department of Commerce
           2.1.5 The Department of Justice
       2.2 The National Security Council[NSC]: A State Department?
       2.3 Intelligence services
       2.4 Government Agencies

Private actors

       3.1 Lobbying in Congress
       3.2 Action on the ground
       3.3 Institutions of expertise: think tanks
           3.3.1 First Generation
           3.3.2 Second Generation
       3.4 Institutions of Expertise: Private Actors in the Federal Administration
       3.5 Institutions of expertise: universities

Annexes

• Casey, Steven. "Selling NSC-68: The Truman Administration, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Mobilization, 1950-51*." Diplomatic History 29.4 (2005): 655-90.