Foreign Policy
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Þetta tímamótaverk er kjörinn inngangur að síbreytilegu fræðasviði utanríkisstefnu. Í einu riti er að finna einstaka samþættingu kenninga, gerenda og dæma. Sérfræðingar á sviðinu veita nemendum aðgengilega og gagnlega kynningu á því hvað utanríkisstefna er og hvernig henni er framfylgt. Áhersla er lögð á að tengja kenningar við raunveruleg dæmi og sérstakur hluti bókarinnar er helgaður viðeigandi og aktuel dæmarannsóknum þar sem nálgunum og kenningum um greiningu utanríkisstefnu er beitt.
Höfundarnir varpa skýru ljósi á tengsl kenninga í alþjóðasamskiptum, stjórnmálafræði og þróunar greiningar á utanríkisstefnu og leggja áherslu á helstu álitamálin innan fræðasamfélagsins.
Nýtt í þessari útgáfu:
- Nýir kaflar um nýlenduhyggju og kyn styðja við aukið vægi þessara viðfangsefna í kennslu um utanríkisstefnu.
- Kaflarnir með dæmarannsóknum á utanríkisstefnu í þriðja hluta hafa verið endurskoðaðir að fullu, með markvissari áherslu á Asíu. Kaflarnir um Kína, Indland og Brasilíu hafa einnig verið uppfærðir verulega til að endurspegla samtímaumræðu.
This ground-breaking text provides the ideal introduction to the ever-changing field of foreign policy. With a unique combination of theories, actors and cases in a single volume, the expert contributors provide students with a valuable and accessible introduction to what foreign policy is and how it is conducted. With an emphasis throughout on grounding theory in empirical examples, the textbook features a section dedicated to relevant and topical case studies where foreign policy analysis approaches and theories are applied.
The expert team of contributors clearly conveys the connection between international relations theory, political science, and the development of foreign policy analysis, emphasizing the key debates in the academic community. -New to this edition - New chapters on postcolonialism and gender support the growing inclusion of these topics in foreign policy teaching. - Foreign policy case study chapters in part three are fully revised with more systematic focus on Asia, and major revisions to the chapters on China, India, and Brazil to reflect contemporary discourse.
Nánar um bókina
- Oxford University Press Academic UK
- 9780192677709
- 9780192677693
- ePub
- 4
- Steve Smith
- English
- 2024-07-10
- 100
- 2
- 2
Kaflar
- Cover Page
- Praise for previous editions
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- The contemporary relevance of foreign policy
- Foreign-policy theory: disciplinary groundings
- Organization of the fourth edition
- Part 1 Foreign-policy analysis History and theory
- 1 The history and evolution of foreign-policy analysis
- 1.1 Introduction: three paradigmatic works
- 1.2 Classic FPA scholarship (1954–1993)
- 1.2.1 Group decisionmaking
- 1.2.2 Small-group dynamics
- 1.2.3 Organizational process and bureaucratic politics
- 1.2.4 Comparative foreign policy
- 1.2.5 Events data
- 1.2.6 Integrated explanations
- 1.3 The psychological and societal milieux of foreign-policy decisionmaking
- 1.3.1 Individual characteristics
- 1.3.2 National and societal characteristics
- 1.4 FPA self-reflection in the late 1970s and 1980s
- 1.5 Conclusion: contemporary FPA’s research agenda
- 1.5.1 New questions
- 1.5.2 Non-North American FPA
- 1.5.3 New attempts to connect IR and FPA
- 1.5.3.1 Neoclassical realism
- 1.5.3.2 Behavioural IR
- 1.5.3.3 A gender lens on foreign policy
- 1.5.3.4 Time and foreign-policy decisionmaking
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 2 Realism and foreign policy
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 What is realism?
- 2.3 The development of realist theories
- 2.3.1 Theoretical schools within realism
- 2.3.2 Theories within realism
- 2.3.3 Assumptions, conditions, and theories
- 2.4 Realist analysis of foreign policy
- 2.4.1 Practitioners’ realist foreign-policy approaches
- 2.4.2 Scholars’ realist foreign-policy approaches
- 2.5 Using realism in analysing foreign policy
- 2.5.1 Guidelines
- 2.5.2 Example 1: the never-ending Cold War
- 2.5.3 Example 2: major power war in 1990s Europe
- 2.5.4 Example 3: blaming Russia’s war in Ukraine on the West
- 2.5.5 Avoiding pitfalls
- 2.6 Conclusion: hedgehogs, foxes, and analysing foreign policy
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 3 Liberalism and foreign policy
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Liberalism
- 3.3 Liberal foreign relations
- 3.3.1 The liberal zone of peace
- 3.3.2 Imprudent aggressiveness
- 3.3.3 Complaisance and isolationism
- 3.3.4 Liberal FPA
- 3.4 Mitigating trade-offs
- 3.4.1 Preservation
- 3.4.2 Expansion
- 3.4.3 Inspiration
- 3.4.4 Intervention
- 3.5 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 4 Constructivism and foreign policy
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 What is constructivism?
- 4.3 Applied constructivism
- 4.4 The essence of constructivism
- 4.4.1 Social construction and social facts
- 4.4.2 Ideational and material structures
- 4.4.3 Identity, interests, and ‘logics of action’
- 4.4.4 Agents, structure, and practice
- 4.5 Constructivism meets foreign policy
- 4.5.1 Keeping NATO members safe
- 4.5.2 Maintaining shared identity and understandings
- 4.5.3 Facilitating cooperative relationships
- 4.6 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 5 Discourse analysis, post-structuralism, and foreign policy
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Post-structuralism
- 5.2.1 Groupism: from universality to historicity
- 5.2.2 Egoism: from human nature to performativity
- 5.2.3 Power: from capability to discourse
- 5.3 Studying foreign-policy discourses
- 5.3.1 The politics of representation
- 5.3.2 The scope and stability of foreign policy
- 5.3.3 Change and genealogy
- 5.4 Conclusion: the scope, strengths, and weaknesses of discourse analysis
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 6 Gender and foreign policy
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Feminist approaches to global politics
- 6.3 Parallel tracks and multiple silences: feminist FPA
- 6.3.1 Gender as a subject of foreign and security policy
- 6.3.2 Gender blindness in FPA
- 6.3.3 Gendering foreign policy: the contribution of feminist FPA
- 6.4 From gender mainstreaming to feminist foreign policy
- 6.5 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 7 Postcolonialism and foreign policy
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 History of postcolonialism
- 7.3 Key assumptions
- 7.3.1 Provincializing the West
- 7.3.2 Restoration and recovery
- 7.3.3 Liberation
- 7.4 Postcolonialism and FPA
- 7.4.1 Spheres of influence
- 7.4.2 Decolonizing foreign policy?
- 7.4.3 The coloniality of global norm-making
- 7.5 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- Part 2 Analysing foreign policy Challenges, actors, tools
- 8 Strategic assessment and grand strategy
- 8.1 Introduction: strategy, grand strategy, and foreign policy
- 8.2 Making strategy
- 8.3 Power analysis: assessing the strategic environment
- 8.3.1 Measuring power
- 8.3.2 Net assessment
- 8.4 Constructing national interests
- 8.5 Power and appropriateness: the ways and means of strategy
- 8.6 Conclusion: strategy and foreign policy
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 9 Making decisions Rational, psychological, and neurological approaches
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Common-sense understandings of rationality
- 9.3 Psychological models: the ‘cognitive revolution’
- 9.3.1 Simplicity
- 9.3.2 Consistency
- 9.3.3 Poor estimators
- 9.3.4 Loss aversion
- 9.4 Neuroscience, emotion, and computation
- 9.5 Conclusion: making better decisions
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 10 The national security state
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 The national security state: conceptual and organizational characteristics
- 10.3 The Cold War national security state
- 10.4 The resilience of the US national security state in the post-Cold War era
- 10.4.1 The ‘new world order’ period, 1990–1993
- 10.4.2 The Somalia Syndrome and the reinvigoration of the US national security state, 1993–2001
- 10.5 9/11 and the expansion of the US national security state 2001–2022
- 10.5.1 Bush’s war on terror
- 10.5.2 Obama’s campaign against ‘violent extremism’
- 10.5.3 Trump’s campaign against radical Islamic terrorism
- 10.5.4 Biden’s counterterrorism and national security policy
- 10.6 Conclusion: assessing the impact of the national security state as a US foreign-policy actor in the post-Cold War era
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 11 Economic statecraft
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Economic statecraft: instruments, objectives, and capacities
- 11.3 Economic sanctions: not always successful, but still useful
- 11.3.1 Why is it difficult for sanctions to succeed?
- 11.3.2 Why governments still find sanctions useful
- 11.3.3 The end of the Cold War, globalization, and democratization
- 11.4 Economic incentives: an under-appreciated instrument of statecraft?
- 11.4.1 Positive and negative economic statecraft
- 11.5 Economic interdependence: source of political harmony or conflict?
- 11.6 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 12 Public diplomacy
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 The origins and evolution of public diplomacy
- 12.3 Public diplomacy in the twenty-first century
- 12.4 Theorizing public diplomacy
- 12.4.1 Soft power, sharp power, and strategic narratives
- 12.5 Public diplomacy in action
- 12.6 Beyond public diplomacy 2.0
- 12.7 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 13 Aid diplomacy
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 What is aid and how much is given?
- 13.3 Why aid?
- 13.3.1 Realist perspectives
- 13.3.2 Liberal perspectives
- 13.3.3 Constructivist perspectives
- 13.3.4 Post-structuralist perspectives
- 13.4 The dilemmas of aid diplomacy: for donors
- 13.4.1 The problem of efficacy
- 13.4.2 The dilemmas of dominance
- 13.4.3 The problem of donor competition
- 13.5 The dilemmas of aid diplomacy: for recipients
- 13.5.1 The problem of control
- 13.5.2 The dilemma of debt
- 13.5.3 The problem of uncertainty
- 13.6 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 14 Climate change and foreign policy
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 A global problem in a world of states
- 14.2.1 A wicked policy problem
- 14.2.2 A perfect moral storm
- 14.2.3 From problems to solutions? International cooperation
- 14.3 Climate change, foreign policy, and diplomacy
- 14.3.1 The domestic meets the international
- 14.3.2 Climate diplomacy: tools of the ambitious
- 14.3.3 Climate diplomacy: tools of the reluctant
- 14.4 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- Part 3 Foreign-policy case studies
- 15 The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Operation Anadyr
- 15.3 Why missiles in Cuba? four hypotheses
- 15.3.1 Hypothesis one: Cuban defence
- 15.3.2 Hypothesis two: Cold War politics
- 15.3.3 Hypothesis three: missile power
- 15.3.4 Hypothesis four: Berlin—win, trade, or trap?
- 15.3.5 The four hypotheses reviewed
- 15.4 Why American blockade?
- 15.5 Why Soviet withdrawal of missiles from Cuba?
- 15.6 Epilogue: three conceptual frameworks for analysing foreign policy
- 15.6.1 On the precipice of nuclear war
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 16 Neoconservatism and the domestic sources of US foreign policy The role of ideas in Operation Iraqi Freedom
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Neoconservatism as a domestic source of US foreign policy
- 16.3 The four tenets of neoconservative foreign-policy thought
- 16.4 Neoconservatives and the slaying of the Iraqi monster
- 16.4.1 The one percent doctrine
- 16.5 Neoconservatism in the context of other factors
- 16.6 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 17 China’s approach to the protection of its interests overseas
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 The evolution of China’s approach to the protection of its interests overseas
- 17.3 An unconvincing interpretation
- 17.4 Foreign policy through the lens of the decisionmaking unit
- 17.5 Chinese foreign policy through the lens of the DMU
- 17.5.1 China’s decisionmaking unit
- 17.5.2 The origin and evolution of China’s policy under Hu Jintao
- 17.5.3 Continuity with Xi Jinping
- 17.6 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 18 India and the world Civilizational narratives in foreign policy
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 The state of the art: civilizational narratives, civilizational states, and a rising India
- 18.3 Key continuities in Indian foreign policy
- 18.3.1 India and trade politics
- 18.3.2 India on geopolitical priorities and alignments
- 18.4 Civilizational assertion and global responsibility
- 18.4.1 India as the ‘mother of democracy’
- 18.4.2 Trade in a world of weaponized interdependence
- 18.4.3 Contribution to old and new public goods
- 18.5 Ancient sources, future developments
- 18.5.1 Distinctive leadership style
- 18.5.2 Values and interests
- 18.5.3 Global justice and sustainable development
- 18.5.4 Food security and globalization
- 18.5.5 Animal rights and ecologism
- 18.6 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 19 Brazil’s rise and fall in world politics
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 Historical perspectives of a rising power
- 19.2.1 Becoming a great power
- 19.2.2 Becoming a regional leader
- 19.3 Brazil on the ropes
- 19.3.1 The fight against great power status and regional leadership
- 19.3.2 Lula 3.0: reconstruction and repositioning
- 19.4 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 20 The Arab/Persian Gulf as a subregional security complex
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 Regional security complex theory
- 20.3 The Gulf subcomplex
- 20.4 The Arab–Israeli conflict
- 20.5 The GCC as an undermined regional organization
- 20.6 Shifting dynamics of the Gulf
- 20.7 Regional sources of complexity
- 20.8 The Iran factor
- 20.9 The GCC states’ international alignment-making
- 20.10 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 21 The European Union Building a common foreign policy
- 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 What is EU foreign policy?
- 21.3 Explaining EU foreign policy
- 21.4 Building security community through enlargement
- 21.5 The future of enlargement and the war in Ukraine
- 21.6 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 22 Energy and foreign policy EU–Russia energy dynamics
- 22.1 Introduction
- 22.2 Energy and foreign policy
- 22.2.1 Energy actors
- 22.2.2 The role of energy in foreign policy
- 22.3 Energy in post-Cold War reform
- 22.4 Russia: energy security gone rogue?
- 22.5 EU: the dangers of dependency?
- 22.5.1 EU energy policies to the rescue?
- 22.6 East–West energy relations: 2004–2022
- 22.6.1 Ukraine: 2006 and 2014
- 22.7 The Ukraine invasion and energy security
- 22.7.1 Energy infrastructure
- 22.7.2 EU policy responses
- 22.7.3 European and global sanctions
- 22.7.4 Russian and international responses
- 22.8 Contemporary energy and foreign-policy challenges
- 22.9 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 23 The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria
- 23.1 Introduction
- 23.2 From popular uprising to civil war
- 23.2.1 Sectarian conflicts and ‘new wars’
- 23.2.2 External actors
- 23.3 Meddling, mediating, muddling through
- 23.3.1 Envoy Annan
- 23.3.2 Envoy Brahimi
- 23.3.3 Envoy de Mistura
- 23.4 Great power cooperation and conflict
- 23.4.1 Great powers as moral agents
- 23.4.2 The pursuit of order: coercive diplomacy and the enforcement of CWC
- 23.4.3 Peace mediation and the elusive quest for a ceasefire
- 23.5 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- 24 Global health governance and COVID-19
- 24.1 Introduction
- 24.2 Global health governance and its origins
- 24.3 Microbes, humans, and COVID-19
- 24.4 Putting global health governance into practice: the WHO, COVAX, the United States, and China
- 24.4.1 The World Health Organization
- 24.4.2 COVAX
- 24.4.3 The United States
- 24.4.4 China
- 24.5 Barriers to cooperation
- 24.6 What do we do next?
- 24.7 Conclusion
- Key points
- Questions
- Further reading
- Endnotes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Images
- 1 The history and evolution of foreign-policy analysis
- 2 Realism and foreign policy
- 3 Liberalism and foreign policy
- 9 Making decisions
- 13 Aid diplomacy
- 15 The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 16 Neoconservatism and the domestic sources of US foreign policy
- 17 China’s approach to the protection of its interests overseas
- 18 India and the world
- 21 The European Union
- 22 Energy and foreign policy
- 23 The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria