| Titre : | Ideas and foreign policy : beliefs, institutions, and political change / | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Judith Goldstein ; Robert O. Keohane ; Social Science Research Council (U.S.) | | Editeur : | Cornell University Press | | Année de publication : | 1993 | | Collection : | Cornell studies in political economy | | Importance : | x, 308 p. | | Format : | 24 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8014-8152-9 | | Note générale : | "The papers in this volume grew out of a panel sponsored by the Committee on Foreign Policy Studies of the Social Science Research Council"--Ser. t.p. | | Mots-clés : | International Relations | | Index. décimale : | 327 Relations internationales | | Résumé : | "The papers in this volume grew out of a panel sponsored by the Committee on Foreign Policy Studies of the Social Science Research Council"--Ser. t.p.
Do people's beliefs help to explain foreign policy decisions, or is political activity better understood as the self-interested behavior of key actors? The collaborative effort of a group of distinguished scholars, this volume breaks new ground in demonstrating how ideas can shape policy, even when actors are motivated by rational self-interest.
After an introduction outlining a new framework for approaching the role of ideas in foreign policy making, well-crafted case studies test the approach. The function of ideas as "road maps" that reduce uncertainty is examined in chapters on human rights, decolonialization, the creation of socialist economies in China and Eastern Europe, and the postwar Anglo-American economic settlement. Discussions of parliamentary ideas in seventeenth-century England and of the Single European Act illustrate the role of ideas in resolving problems of coordination. The process by which ideas are institutionalized is further explored in chapters on the Peace of Westphalia and on German and Japanese efforts to cope with contemporary terrorism. |
Ideas and foreign policy : beliefs, institutions, and political change / [texte imprimé] / Judith Goldstein ; Robert O. Keohane ; Social Science Research Council (U.S.) . - [S.l.] : Cornell University Press, 1993 . - x, 308 p. ; 24 cm. - ( Cornell studies in political economy) . ISBN : 978-0-8014-8152-9 "The papers in this volume grew out of a panel sponsored by the Committee on Foreign Policy Studies of the Social Science Research Council"--Ser. t.p. | Mots-clés : | International Relations | | Index. décimale : | 327 Relations internationales | | Résumé : | "The papers in this volume grew out of a panel sponsored by the Committee on Foreign Policy Studies of the Social Science Research Council"--Ser. t.p.
Do people's beliefs help to explain foreign policy decisions, or is political activity better understood as the self-interested behavior of key actors? The collaborative effort of a group of distinguished scholars, this volume breaks new ground in demonstrating how ideas can shape policy, even when actors are motivated by rational self-interest.
After an introduction outlining a new framework for approaching the role of ideas in foreign policy making, well-crafted case studies test the approach. The function of ideas as "road maps" that reduce uncertainty is examined in chapters on human rights, decolonialization, the creation of socialist economies in China and Eastern Europe, and the postwar Anglo-American economic settlement. Discussions of parliamentary ideas in seventeenth-century England and of the Single European Act illustrate the role of ideas in resolving problems of coordination. The process by which ideas are institutionalized is further explored in chapters on the Peace of Westphalia and on German and Japanese efforts to cope with contemporary terrorism. |
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