Planning Our Foreign Policy: Problems Of The Middle East.

Duration: 21 min.

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Brookings Institution

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Shows who is responsible for American foreign policy, who composes the policy-making committee, and how it proposes American foreign policy. Presents a committee meeting of representative of various departments of government - an economist, a military specialist, a public opinion and information specialist, and a political and area specialist - where the steps of analysis are portrayed in formulating policy suggestions in relation to the Middle East. Points out that policy-making is an endless process in which committees pass recommendations on to higher echelons, where a given area is considered along with other areas of the world.

Complete Record: PLANNING OUR FOREIGN POLICY: PROBLEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films in collaboration with the Brookings Institution. 21 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. © Brookings Institution; 6Jan55 in notice: 1954); MP5997.

Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)