That’s Rather the Point….
By Drezner on the Turkish-Armenian question:
3) So when will we get to read The Armenian Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy?
If Dan’s point is that the influence of lobbies acting on behalf of small minorities of American citizens can have a substantially negative effect on American foreign policy, I’d say that he’s in almost complete agreement with Walt and Mearsheimer. If he’s saying that a lobby other than the Israel lobby can have a consequential impact on US foreign policy, then I’d say he’s on solid ground, but that the comparative impact of, say, the Armenian lobby and the Israeli lobby is pretty much an empirical question, and one that’s likely to weigh heavily towards the Israeli side. That said, it’s a useful corrective to the most far reaching claims that Walt and Mearsheimer make regarding the influence of the Israeli lobby.