{"id":4243,"date":"2022-01-22T14:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/?page_id=4243"},"modified":"2023-08-26T23:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T23:18:25","slug":"partisan-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/course-syllabus\/partisan-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Partisan Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What were the first great institutional conflicts that emerged within the American diplomatic system?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CHAPTER 2:\u00a0 “None Who Can Make Us Afraid”:\u00a0 The New Republic in a Hostile World, 1789-1801<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Despite their partisanship and occasional excess, the Federalists skillfully guided the United States through a perilous era.\u00a0 Displaying opportunism and pragmatism in time of crisis, they exploited the European war to America’s advantage while scrupulously avoiding the full-scale involvement that would have been disastrous at this stage of the nation’s growth…The Federalists also bequeathed an enduring legacy of practice and doctrine.\u00a0 Inheriting a distrust of executive or legislative control of foreign policy, the Founders created a mixed constitutional arrangement with little basis in historical experience.\u00a0 Without precedent to guide him, Washington molded the vagaries of the Constitution into a workable system.\u00a0 The result was not a democratic foreign policy in any real sense of the word.\u00a0 Constitutional ambiguities would lead to executive abuses of power and intense executive-legislative conflict.\u00a0 But the system subjected foreign policy to the popular will to a greater degree than in other governments to that time.”<\/p>\n

–George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower:\u00a0 U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 91-2.<\/p>\n