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Foreign Policy
Theories, Actors, Cases

Edited by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield, and Tim Dunne

Price: £24.99 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921529-4
Publication date: 20 December 2007
480 pages, Figures, boxes, tables, 246x189 mm

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Description
  • No existing book collects all aspects of foreign policy together in one place. Lecturers can base their course on this title.
  • Provides a unique balance between the theoretical and practical sides of foreign policy, with a dedicated nine-chapter case studies section, showing students how foreign policy works in practice.
  • The contributors are a mixture of academics and practitioners, ensuring that students can take a rigorous theoretical approach, as well as engaging with the policy process.
  • Online Resource Centre offers an interactive timeline, web links, flashcard glossary, case studies and PowerPoint slides.
  • Visually appealing 2-colour text.
This major new textbook introduces students to the dynamic and evolving field of foreign policy. The book opens with a consideration of different theoretical and historical perspectives; it then focuses on a range of actors and the goals they seek to advance; and it ends with a series of case studies involving issues and crises relating to a wide range of different countries Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases is timely given the growing significance of foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. It will be essential reading for all students new to foreign policy.

The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre.

Student resources:

Interactive timeline
Web links
Flashcard glossary

Instructor resources:

Three case studies
PowerPoint slides

Readership: 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates and postgraduates undertaking courses such as Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy Analysis, Issues in Foreign Policy, The Making of Foreign Policy or Comparative Foreign Policy.

Contents
Preface , James Rosenau
Introduction , Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne
Section 1: Foreign Policy Analysis: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
1. The History and Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis , Valerie Hudson
2. Realism and Foreign Policy , William Wohlforth
3. Liberalism and Foreign Policy , Michael Doyle
4. Constructivism and Foreign Policy , Jeffrey Checkel
Section 2: Analysing Foreign Policy: Actors, Context and Goals
5. Actors, Structures and Foreign Policy Analysis , Walter Carlsanes
6. Foreign Policy Decision Making: Rational, Psychological, and Neurological Models , Janice Gross Stein
7. Implementation and Behaviour , Christopher Hill & Elisabetta Brighi
8. The Role of Media and Public Opinion , Piers Robinson
9. The Primacy of National Security , Brian Schmidt
10. Economic Statecraft , Michael Mastanduno
11. Duties Beyond Borders , Michael Barnett
Section 3: Foreign Policy Case Studies
12. The Cuban Missile Crisis , Graham Allison
13. Canada and Antipersonnel Landmines , Lloyd Axworthy
14. Neoconservatism and the Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy , Yuen Foong Khong
15. India and the World Trade Organisation , Amrita Narlika
16. Israeli-Egyptian (In)security: The Yom Kippur War , Gareth Stansfield
17. China and the Tian'anmen Bloodshed Of June 1989 , Rosemary Foot
18. Energy and Foreign Policy: EU-Russia Energy Dynamics , Amelia Hadfield
19. Britain and the Gathering Storm over Iraq , Tim Dunne
20. New Actors, New Foreign Policy: EU And Enlargement , Lisbeth Aggestam
Conclusion: Teaching Foreign Policy Case Studies , Steven L. Lamy

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Steve Smith, Professor of International Studies and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter,
Amelia Hadfield, Lecturer in European International Relations at the University of Kent, and
Tim Dunne, Reader in International Relations and Head of the Department of Politics, University of Exeter

Contributors:Jim Roseneau, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Steve Smith, Vice-Chancellor, University of Exeter
Valerie Hudson, Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University
William Wohlforth, Department of Government, Dartmouth University
Michael Doyle, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Jeffrey Checkel, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
Graham Allison, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Walter Carlsnaes, Department of Government, Uppsala University
Janice Gross Stein, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Elisabetta Brighi, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Christopher Hill, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge
Piers Robinson, Department of Politics, University of Manchester
Brian C. Schmidt, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Michael Mastanduno, Department of Government, Dartmouth University
Michael Barnett, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesotta
Yeun Foong Khong, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Amrita Narlikar, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge
Gareth Stansfield, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Rosemary Foot, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Amelia Hadfield, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury
Tim Dunne, Department of Politics, University of Exeter
Lisbeth Aggestam, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge
Steve Lamy, School of International Studies, University of Southern California

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