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Foreign policy : theories actors cases

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to foreign policy. It is divided into three sections: different theoretical and historical perspectives; actors and goals; and case studies. Written by leading academics and practitioners, the book applies foreign policy analysis to real world issues
Print Book, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
Case studies
pages cm
9780199215294, 0199215294
166624972
Preface; Introduction; SECTION 1: FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; 1. The History and Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis; 2. Realism and Foreign Policy; 3. Liberalism and Foreign Policy; 4. Constructivism and Foreign Policy; SECTION 2: ANALYSING FOREIGN POLICY: ACTORS, CONTEXT AND GOALS; 5. Actors, Structures and Foreign Policy Analysis; 6. Foreign Policy Decision Making: Rational, Psychological, and Neurological Models; 7. Implementation and Behaviour; 8. The Role of Media and Public Opinion; 9. The Primacy of National Security; 10. Economic Statecraft; 11. Duties Beyond Borders; SECTION 3: FOREIGN POLICY CASE STUDIES; 12. The Cuban Missile Crisis; 13. Canada and Antipersonnel Landmines; 14. Neoconservatism and the Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy; 15. India and the World Trade Organisation; 16. Israeli-Egyptian (In)security: The Yom Kippur War; 17. China and the Tian'anmen Bloodshed Of June 1989; 18. Energy and Foreign Policy: EU-Russia Energy Dynamics; 19. Britain and the Gathering Storm over Iraq; 20. New Actors, New Foreign Policy: EU And Enlargement; Conclusion: Teaching Foreign Policy Case Studies