In the book, The Media and Foreign Policy, Simon Serfaty, Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute in Washington, D. C., and research professor of American foreign policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced international Studies, shares his own and fellow authors collected essays on the media's effect on foreign policy and foreign policy decision making of the United States, if there is any. Serfaty has edited several books on foreign relations and foreign policies as well as authored many of his books and essays. His work has been primarily focused on foreign policy and foreign relations since the onset and ending of the "Cold War". In The Media and Foreign Policy, Serfaty brings together a collection of essays that defend the media's current and past role of reporting the United Sta

The underlying theme throughout all of the essays is a defense of the media and they manner in which they conduct interviews, articles, and news reports concerning the United States government's foreign policies, and foreign relations. An example of this can be found in Philip L. Geyelin's essay, The Strategic Defense Initiative: The President's Story. Geyelin attacks then president now former, Ronald Reagan for unveiling his Strategic Defense Initiative to the world on national television. Geyelin feels that the press should have informed prior to the announcement so as to bring a better coverage of the story to the American people. But President Reagan felt differently and released the information in his own way and fashion, as most great presidents would have done.

Serfaty attempts to shed some semblance of light on a very peculiar situation, which is the media and its effect, if any, on the Uni

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