2Richard A. Melanson, American Foreign Policy since the Vietnam War: the Search for Consensus from Nixon to Clinton (New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc. , 1996), 2nd edition, p. 260.
3Chartes W. Kegley, Jr.,& Eugene R. Wittkopf, American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996), fifth edition, p. 267.
4Kegley & Wittkopf, p. 265.
5Jerel A. Rosati, The Politics of United States Foreign Policy (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999), 2nd edition, p. 383.
6OleR. Holsti, preface.
7("file drawer"model). John R. Zaller, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992),p. 35.
8John R. Zaller, p. 35,30-34.
9John R. Zaller, p. 32.
10Robert C, Hilderbrand, Power and the People: Executive Management of Public Opinion in Foreign Affairs, 1897-1991 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981).