Foreign Policy In A Transformed World - Hardcover

Webber, Mark; Smith, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138836982 ISBN 13: 9781138836983

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

For 2nd and 3rd year courses in international politics and foreign policy. This text examines foreign policy in relation to 'change and transformation.' It discusses traditional assumptions about foreign policy and foreign policy making, and develops a framework to facilitate analysis of the challenges faced by foreign policy makers in the late 1990s. The central elements of the framework are the foreign policy arena, decision-making and implementation.  The book then applies the framework to a set of regional case studies, to explore the global and regional arenas and the challenges to which they give rise. Finally, specific case studies of two countries per region highlight the range of impacts for the changing global and regional context, to focus on the analysis of decision-making and implementation, and to illustrate the benefits of comparative analysis.

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From the Back Cover:

Foreign Policy in a Transformed World provides an in-depth introduction to foreign policy analysis, looking at the role of foreign policy within contemporary international politics. The overall theme of the text is the study of foreign policy in relation to change and transformation, providing conceptual frameworks and applications for use in a variety of learning contexts and situating the study of foreign policy within the broader development of world politics and the world political economy: * introduces the main frameworks for the analysis of foreign policy, linking these to the study and development of world politics generally * applies the frameworks to contemporary foreign policies, providing not only a test of the frameworks themselves but also the basis for comparative work by students * takes into account the distinctive nature of world politics in the post Cold War era, whilst providing an introduction to traditional themes in the study of foreign policy * gives a consistent structure to the case studies examined, whilst allowing for the treatment of distinctive features and trends in each of the case studies * provides the basis for active learning by students, through the provision of guides to further reading and resources, and appropriate questions for discussion and investigation Dr Mark Webber is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University.Professor Michael Smith is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at Loughborough University.

About the Author:

Mark Webber is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University, UK.

Michael Smith is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at Loughborough University, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138836982
• ISBN 13: 9781138836983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392