ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents two new models to consider both the making of foreign policy decisions and their subsequent implementation. The Presidential Framework and the Implementation Framework models modify and develop the decision making models presented by Graham Allison in his seminal text on crisis decision making, The Essence of Decision. The book contends that all US foreign policy is underpinned by American Exceptionalism. This is the notion that America has a unique mission, even divine destiny, to propagate the values of 'freedom and democracy' throughout the world. The book argues that organizations compete for scarce resources and are more concerned with their own well-being than in implementing policy. It describes the US democracy promotion in Russia as a case study to highlight tendencies in both the making and implementation of foreign policy that result in suboptimal outcomes.
