ABSTRACT
Maximizer feminists might expect women in the foreign policy process to be sensitive to Enloe’s conception of who makes foreign policy, incorporating a broader perspective of who influences, or makes it. Numerous models have been developed to explain the American foreign policy process. In terms of examining the question concerning who makes foreign policy, most authors have pictured the foreign policy process as consisting of a number of concentric circles. In terms of the relative power of the bureaucracies, it has been estimated that there are at least 16 federal agencies with 36,000 personnel engaged in foreign affairs. The “Imperial Presidency” argument contends that the President has increasingly come to dominate the foreign policy process. In contrast, however, are those who argue that Congress controls foreign affairs. Numerous models have been developed to explain the American foreign policy process. Many theorists have argued that State is becoming almost peripheral to foreign policy formulation.
