The Transformation of Foreign Policy

Drawing and Managing Boundaries from Antiquity to the Present

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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The study of foreign policy is usually concerned with the interaction of states, and thus with governance structures which emerged either with the so-called 'Westphalian system' or in the course of the 18th century: diplomacy and international law. As a result, examining foreign policy in earlier periods involves conceptual and terminological difficulties, which echo current debates on 'post-national' foreign policy actors like the European Union or global cities. This volume argues that a novel understanding of what constitutes foreign policy may offer a way out of this problem. It considers foreign policy as the outcome of processes that make some boundaries different from others, and set those that separate communities in an internal space apart from those that mark foreignness. The creation of such boundaries, which can be observed at all times, designates specific actors - which can be, but do not have to be, 'states' - as capable of engaging in foreign policy. As such boundaries are likely to be contested, they are unlikely to provide either a single or a simple distinction between 'insides' and 'outsides'. In this view, multiple layers of foreign-policy actors with different characteristics appear less as a modern development and more as a perennial aspect of foreign policy. In a broad perspective stretching from early Greek polities to present-day global cities, the volume offers a theoretical and empirical presentation of this concept by political scientists, jurists, and historians.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-07-21
Mått:168 x 241 x 23 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:318
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198783862

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Gunther Hellmann is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences and Principal Investigator in the Centre of Excellence 'Formation of Normative Orders', both at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His research interests are in the fields of foreign policy analysis, especially German and European foreign policy, international security, esp. transatlantic and European security, and international relations theory. He is one of the editors of Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB).; Andreas Fahrmeir is Professor of Modern History at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He is a principal investigator with the 'Normative Orders' research cluster and co-editor of the Historische Zeitschrift.; Miloš Vec is Professor of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna. He is co-editor with Thomas Hippler of Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe (OUP, 2015).

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By understanding foreign policy as boundary-producing practices, The Transformation of Foreign Policy is a welcome contribution to move Foreign Policy Analysis beyond the study of decision-making processes. This take asks for a more historical perspective, covering the delimitation of social spaces across time from well before the Westphalian system, as in the early Greek and Medieval polities. It also invites for a reflexive analysis of these historical practices in their production of political, legal, civilizational and also racial lines. The volume shows ways of, and makes a persuasive call for, redrawing the contours of International Relations with historical and legal expertise.

Innehållsförteckning

PART I: THEORIZING FOREIGN POLICY: ACTORHOOD AND BOUNDARIES; PART II: THE GOVERNANCE OF INTERCOMMUNAL RELATIONS IN ANTIQUITY; PART III: UNCERTAINTY AND TRANSITION WITHIN THE "WESTPHALIAN SYSTEM": NORMATIVE PATTERNS AND PRACTICES BETWEEN AND BEYOND SOVEREIGN STATES; PART IV: ALTERNATIVE AUTHORITIES IN INTERCOMMUNAL RELATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW; PART V: CONCLUSIONS