| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 美國研究所 === 85 === The U.S. Jewish community has long been regarded as the
most efficient,influential and successful among all of the
ethnic foreign policy lobbyinggroups, even among all of the
foreign policy lobbying groups. Based on theU.S. national
interests, Jews in the U.S., with collective force, employ
theirsophisticated lobbying technique (strategies and tactics)
to influence somespecific persons, departments, or branches. By
doing so, they not only improvetheir own interests but maintain
and promote the Israeli national interests. This thesis
analyzes the formulation and development of the U.S.
Jewishinterest groups with Mancur Olson, Jr.''s collevtive action
theory, and discusses the factors influencing the efficiency of
lobbying with public choicetheory of Dennis C. Mueller, James M.
Buchanan, and Bruno S. Frey. In addition, the relationship
between the U.S. and Israel and that between the U.S. and the
Arab countries, the Jews'' lobbying access, methods, and
constraints will be analyzed as well. In recent years, the
R.O.C. government has been aggressively engaged inforeign policy
lobbying in the U.S. by spending much money for public
relationspromotion. As a result, there has been some success on
the one hand, but somecriticism has occurred on the other.
Furthermore, the government has notorganized nor made good use
of overseas Chinese groups'' influence in order toimprove the
national interests of the R.O.C. under the "game rules." For
thisreason, I would like to clarify to the government the
importance of an efficiently organized public relations
campaign, employing the power of overseas Chinese communities in
this thesis. Chapter One is the introduction in this study.
Chapter Two discusses thetwo theories--collective action theory
and public choice theory. The analysisof the Relationship of
the U.S., Israel and the Arab countries is in ChapterThree,
including the independence of Israel, the five Israeli-Arab
conflicts,and the changes of U.S. Middle East policy after WWII.
Chapter Four uses collective action theory to analyze the
formulation and development of Jewishinterest groups. In
Chapter Five, I discuss the lobbying aims, methods, and
constraints of the Jewish community. The general analysis of
Jewish lobbyingand the case study--Airborne Warning and Control
System (AWACS) sale to SaudiArab in 1981--are arranged in
Chapter Six. Chapter Seven is the conclusion.
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