Studying the foreign policy process -- The Marshall plan, 1948 -- The Berlin airlift, 1948 -- The decision not to intervene in Indochina, 1954 -- The cancellation of the Aswan Dam aid offer, 1956 -- The intervention in Lebanon, 1958 -- The trade expansion act, 1962 -- The Cuban missile crisis, 1962 -- The nuclear test ban treaty, 1963 -- The Dominican intervention, 1965 -- The foreign assistance act, 1967 -- The decision to cut back the bombing in Vietnam, 1968 -- Context and process in American foreign policy -- The interplay of ideology and interests