Why Nations Realign: Foreign Policy Restructuring in the Postwar World: 3 (Routledge Library Editions: International Relations) - Hardcover

Holsti, K. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138940070 ISBN 13: 9781138940079

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This book, originally published in 1982, analyzes the process of radical foreign policy change – how states restructure their foreign relations, and why they do so. Using a common analystical framework, the authors examine Bhutan, Burma, Canada, Child, China and Tanzania. They distinguish between piecemeal foreign policy change and adaptation, and the fundamental re-ordering of foreign policy. Their analysis underlines the extent to which non-military and sometimes imagined threats, such as dependency and external economic and cultural penetration, can constitute an important cause of radical realignment activity.

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About the Author:

Kalevi J. Holsti is Research Associate at the Centre for International Relations and University Killam Professor, Political Science (Emeritus), at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The State, War, and the State of War (1995), Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order, 1648 1989 (1991), Change in the International System (1991), The Dividing Discipline (1985), Why Nations Realign (1983) and International Politics: a Framework for Analysis (7 editions).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138940070
• ISBN 13: 9781138940079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234