U.S. Foreign Policy and the Armenian Question

Simon Payaslian looks t the foreign policy traditions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  His central argument is that the United States promotes its own economic interest in whatever response it gives whether it be the nineteenth century Armenian Question or the Armenian Genocide of the twentieth century.  Even when humanitarian issues are involved, the United States makes decisions based on what will benefit the American economy.  And, in decision making processes of the government, agencies look to deal with the Ottoman (later Turkish) government rather than work with Armenians.